Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.6

Resource Definition Editor

The Resource Definition Editor in Rational® Developer for System z® provides support for defining CICS® resources.
Traditionally, the role of defining resources for CICS has been the domain of the CICS system programmer. There has been a reluctance to allow the application developer to define CICS resources for the following reasons:
  • Most CICS resource definitions have many parameters that because of their complexity, interrelationship with other resource definitions, and shop standards require CICS systems programming knowledge to define correctly. Incorrect definitions can cause unexpected results that might impact the entire CICS region.
  • Most customer shops provide CICS development and test environments that must be available for shared use by multiple application groups and developers. Many customer shops have Service Level Agreements in place for these environments. Meeting these agreements requires strict control of the environments.

The Resource Definition Editor in Rational Developer for System z addresses these issues by allowing the CICS system programmers to control CICS resource definition defaults, and to control the display properties of a CICS resource definition parameter. For example, the CICS system programmer can supply certain CICS resource definition parameters that may not be updated by the application developer. Other CICS resource definition parameters may be updatable, with or without supplied defaults, or the CICS resource definition parameter can be hidden to avoid unnecessary complexity.


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