Autoinstall

Autoinstall is a method of creating and installing CICS® resources dynamically as they are required. You can use autoinstall for SNA LUs, MVS™ consoles, APPC connections, IPIC connections, programs, map sets, partition sets, and journals. With autoinstall, you do not have to define and install every resource that you intend to use. Instead, CICS dynamically creates and installs a definition for you, based on a model definition that you provide, when a resource is requested.

You must provide at least one model definition for each type of resource to be autoinstalled. You can have more than one model definition, depending on what properties you want the autoinstalled resources to have. You set up model definitions using either RDO or DFHCSDUP.

You can use an autoinstall control program to control the way autoinstall operates in your CICS region. This program is responsible for, among other things, providing the model name or names to CICS and, providing z/OS® Communications Server information to CICS for autoinstall for terminals, and so on. CICS provides several autoinstall control programs (listed below). You can use the CICS-supplied ones or you can customize them to suit your installation.