Installing terminal definitions
For a new or changed TERMINAL resource definition to become active in a CICS region, you must install it.
About this task
TERMINAL and TYPETERM definitions are resolved during installation to become a TCT entry, sometimes known as a TCT terminal entry or TCTTE. Each definition contains only some of the information necessary to build a TCT entry.
Each TYPETERM definition must be installed before or at the same time as the TERMINAL definitions that reference it. When you use CEDA to install groups, if the TYPETERM definitions are in a separate group from the TERMINAL definitions, you must install the TYPETERM group before the TERMINAL group. You can include TYPETERM definitions and TERMINAL definitions in the same group for testing purposes, although it is not recommended for long-term use.
Because the TERMINAL definition is not necessarily in the same group as its associated TYPETERM definition, the global catalog is used to store the TYPETERM definitions.
Changing a TYPETERM definition and then reinstalling it has no effect on an already installed terminal entry, even though the TERMINAL definition used to create it refers to the TYPETERM. To change the terminal entry, you must reinstall both the TYPETERM and the TERMINAL definitions.
Use the following procedure for groups of TERMINAL definitions.