Management of CICS resources using CICSPlex SM

With Business Application Services, the most important decision you have to make is how to manage the sets of resources you create:

• By resource descriptions alone; see Controlling resources by resource description
• By resource assignments in conjunction with resource descriptions; see Controlling resources by resource assignment

You can use one or both of these approaches to control your CICS® resources, depending on the situation and the degree of precision you require. Resource descriptions alone represent the simplest approach to managing resources. Using resource assignments provides access to the full range of Business Application Services features.