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.