Setting up the catalog data sets

You must define and initialize new CICS® catalogs for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®, Version 5 Release 5 .

About this task

You must define the CICS global catalog data set and the CICS local catalog data set, which CICS requires to catalog CICS system information. Throughout the documentation, these data sets are referred to as the global catalog and the local catalog. The CICS catalog data sets are not connected with MVS™ system catalogs and contain data that is unique to CICS.

For information on how CICS uses the catalogs, including startup and restart, see The role of the CICS catalogs

To estimate the amount of space needed in your global catalog, see Space calculations

To set up the catalog data sets:

Procedure

  1. Define the global catalog.
  2. Define the local catalog.