You create the CICS® application group with
a nature of BASIC and with links to three applications (CICSMAIN,
CICS1TOR, CICS1FOR) that you defined in Step 2: Creating the Applications.
Procedure
To create a System Application Group called CICS, repeat steps 2–8 of Step 3b: Create System Application Group DB2 accordingly.
In the equivalent of step 8,
select the applications CICSMAIN, CICS1TOR, and CICS1FOR on the Applications for ApplicationGroup panel.
On the Policy Selection panel
for application group CICS, select the RESOURCES policy item.
The Select System panel is displayed as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. Scenario: Grouping Resources
COMMANDS ACTIONS HELP
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AOFGARS1 Select System Row 1 to 2 of 2
Command ===> SCROLL===> PAGE
Entry Type : ApplicationGroup PolicyDB Name : USER_PDB
Entry Name : CICS Enterprise Name : USER_ENTERPRISE
Action System Selected Resources
SYSTEM2 3
SYSTEM3 3
Select SYSTEM2. A panel is displayed similar to the one shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Scenario: Resources for the CICS
Sysplex Application Group
COMMANDS ACTIONS HELP
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AOFGARS3 Select Resources Row 1 to 3 of 3
Command ===> SCROLL===> PAGE
Entry Type : ApplicationGroup Entry Name : CICS
System : SYSTEM2
Number of selected Resources : 3
Show all Resources . . . . . . . . NO YES NO
Show only Resources with String. .
Action Status Resource Name Entry Name
SELECTED CICS1FOR/APL/SYSTEM2 CICS1FOR
SELECTED CICSMAIN/APL/SYSTEM2 CICSMAIN
SELECTED CICS1TOR/APL/SYSTEM2 CICS1TOR
Check the created links for SYSTEM3 too. The selected links should be the
same.
Press PF3 to return to the Policy Selection panel
and select the APPLGROUP INFO policy item. Once
again, change the Automatically link Application-Resources field
to NO.
Press PF3 to return to the Entry Name Selection panel for application groups.
Results
The CICS
application group is now complete. If a start request
is issued against CICS, start requests are also issued for
the application resources CICS1FOR, CICSMAIN, and
CICS1TOR (on SYSTEM2 and SYSTEM3).
