Controlling CICS Resources

ESMAC enables you to view, create and modify the resources required by a CICS application running on an enterprise server. An enterprise server equates to a CICS region. When a CICS region starts, it is typically initialized with a system initialization table (SIT). The SIT defines various startup parameters, as well as defining which startup lists are invoked. The startup lists define which groups are used by the CICS applications in this region. The groups in turn define the resources (for example, file control tables and program processing tables) to be loaded for use by applications.

You can maintain the following resources

This includes not just the resources used by this enterprise server, but all the resources defined in the resource definition file for this enterprise server.

ESMAC provides flexibility in the way you view resources. You can view:

If you have suitable permissions you can also: