Creating the CICS data sets

You can use CICS-supplied jobs to create the CICS data sets.

About this task

When you ran the DFHISTAR job as part of the CICS installation, these jobs were tailored to your environment and stored in the library that you specified on the LIB parameter of the DFHISTAR job. The default is CICSTS55.XDFHINST).

You can generate several copies of these jobs by rerunning the DFHISTAR job, selecting the jobs that you want to copy. To generate new copies of these jobs, edit the DFHISTAR job to specify new values for the DSINFO and SELECT parameters. Only those jobs that you name by the SELECT parameter are regenerated.

Procedure

  1. Run the DFHCOMDS job to create the CICS region definition data set, DFHCSD, and the SYSIN data set.
  2. Run the DFHDEFDS job to create data sets used only by one CICS region.
    You must run a separate copy of this job to create the data sets for each CICS region. This job creates the following data sets:
    Table 1. Data sets created by DFHDEFDS
    Data set Description
    DFHAUXT Non-VSAM auxiliary trace (A) data set
    DFHBRNSF Bridge
    DFHBUXT Non-VSAM auxiliary trace (B) data set
    DFHDMPA Non-VSAM dump (A) data set
    DFHDMPB Non-VSAM dump (B) data set
    DFHDPFMB The debugging profiles base data set
    DFHDPFMP The debugging profiles path data set
    DFHDPFMX The debugging profiles path data set
    DFHGCD CICS global catalog
    DFHHTML HTML template data set
    DFHINTRA Intrapartition transient data set
    DFHLCD CICS local catalog
    DFHLRQ BTS local request queue
    DFHPIDIR WS-AT directory data set
    DFHTEMP Temporary storage data set
    FILEA Sample program file
  3. Run the DFHCMACI job to create the CICS messages data set, DFHCMACD, and load it with the data from the CICS-supplied file, DFHCMACD, in the CICSTS55.CICS.SDFHMSGS target library.