Activating or quiescing a target region in an active workload

You can use CICS Explorer® to activate or quiesce a target region in an active workload.

About this task

You might need to perform this task so that you can apply maintenance to a region, for example, or return a region to a workload after completing maintenance. This task describes how to activate or quiesce a target region using CICS Explorer.

Procedure

  1. Choose one of the following options to select target region that you want to activate or quiesce:
    • In the CICSplex Explorer view expand the CICSplex tree to see the active workloads. Expand a workload tree and the associated Targets tree to view the target regions associated with the workload. Inactive regions are disabled.
    • Open the Workload Targets view by clicking WLM > Workload Targets on the CICS Explorer menu bar.
  2. Right-click the target region that you want to activate or quiesce and click Activate or Quiesce.
  3. In the confirmation dialog click OK to activate or quiesce the region, or Cancel to cancel the operation.

Results

The selected target region is activated or quiesced.