Administering
Administering is the activity in which you manage your CICS® systems by using the provided system management interfaces, such as CICS Explorer® . Use this information to manage
applications and workloads, change system settings in a CICSplex, and manage definitions in the CICSPlex® SM data repository.
Controlling CICS operation Starting and stopping CICS Administering CICSPlex SM CICSPlex SM environment, you can use the CICS Explorer or Web User Interface to manage the environment. Administering platforms and applications CICS Explorer to manage and update platforms and applications. You can view, update, and remove applications from platforms. You can remove a platform from a CICSplex if it is no longer required and you can add or remove CICS regions from a region type. Administering JVM servers Administering Java applications Administering BTS Administering data tables Administering connections between CICS systems IPIC , and APPC parallel-session connections between CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®Administering connections to other systems Db2® , IMS, and IBM® MQ , you can use CICS to manage those connections.Administering restart and recovery Administering output from a CICS region