Configuring your system for FEPI

You must configure your system specifically for CICS® FEPI, for new application programs, and possibly for existing applications.

About this task

You might need to adapt your z/OS® Communications Server setup, your CICS system, and CICS FEPI to use the interface effectively.

Procedure

  1. Change the default value of the FEPI system initialization parameter to YES (the default is NO).
    The FEPI system initialization parameter controls whether FEPI is available or not.
    When the CICS region starts, FEPI runs as a system transaction that is started automatically. You do not need to start or stop it independently.
  2. Write a setup program to configure FEPI with the necessary resources when commands are issued from a front-end application program.
    FEPI does not use a configuration file or CICS RDO.
    The setup program can get the configuration data from a file or from whatever source it identifies.
  3. Define CICS FEPI applications to CICS in the normal way.
  4. Optional: Define simulated terminals for FEPI to use.