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Front cover CICS System Manager in the WUI as the Principle Management Interface Installation and overview of CICSPlex SM V3.2 Migration to CICSPlex SM V3.2 Using the CICSPlex SM WUI Chris Rayns Daniel Donnelly John Dobler Gordon Keehn Adrian Ray ibm.com/redbooks International Technical Support Organization CICS System Manager in the WUI as the Principle Management Interface November 2007 SG24-6793-01 Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page vii. Second Edition (November 2007) This edition applies to Version 3, Release 2, CICS Transaction Server. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2005, 2007. All rights reserved. Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Notices . vii Trademarks . viii Preface . ix The team that wrote this RedBook . ix Become a published author . x Comments welcome. xi Chapter 1. CICSPlex SM overview . 1 1.1 CICSPlex SM introduction. 2 1.2 Basic CICSPlex SM components . 4 1.3 CICSPlex SM Web User Interface . 6 1.3.1 CICSPlex SM Web User Interface overview . 7 1.3.2 CICS TS V3.2 WUI enhancements . 9 1.4 CICSPlex SM installation enhancements . 9 1.5 CICSPlex SM enhancements . 10 Chapter 2. CICSPlex SM installation . 13 2.1 Installing CICSPlex SM . 15 2.1.1 Pre-installation tasks . 15 2.1.2 Installation tasks . 16 2.1.3 Defining the CMAS . 23 2.1.4 Defining the WUI . 37 2.2 Connecting to the WUI . 51 2.2.1 Accessing the WUI . 51 2.2.2 Important things to remember . 53 Chapter 3. CICSPlex SM migration . 55 3.1 Best practices when migrating CICSPlex SM . 57 3.1.1 Running CICSPlex SM V3.2 with earlier releases concurrently . 57 3.1.2 Migration rules to consider . 59 3.1.3 ESSS and multiple CICSPlex SM levels . 59 3.1.4 Maximum WUI users. 59 3.1.5 Archiving the CICS auxiliary trace data set. 60 3.2 Pre-migration tasks . 61 3.3 Migrating your CICSplex SM system components . 62 3.3.1 Migrating the CMAS . 62 3.3.2 Migrating the WUI . 69 3.3.3 Migrating a MAS . 90 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2005, 2007. All rights reserved. iii 3.4 Restarting your migrated systems. 91 3.4.1 Restarting your CMAS . 92 3.4.2 Restarting your WUI . 95 3.4.3 Restarting your MAS . 97 3.5 Post-migration tasks . 97 3.5.1 Clean up earlier CICSPlex SM definitions. 97 Chapter 4. CICSPlex SM Web User Interface default menus and views. 101 4.1 Managing CICSPlex system manager resources . 102 4.1.1 Defining the workload environment using topology. 104 4.1.2 Defining workload resources using Business Application Services 111 4.1.3 Defining routing requirements using Workload Management . 139 4.2 Managing CICS resources using the WUI. 157 4.2.1 Disabling a transaction in a number of CICS regions using WUI . 157 4.2.2 New copy program command with the WUI . 161 4.2.3 Closing files across the CICSplex using the WUI . 166 4.2.4 Disabling a URIMAP to prevent a Web service from executing in a CICS system . 173 Chapter 5. WUI view modification and customization . 177 5.1 Using user editor to modify default session parameters . 178 5.1.1 Defining a group profile with the user editor . 180 5.2 Using favorites to capture customized views and menus . 182 5.2.1 Saving a customized view as a favorite . 184 5.2.2 Creating a favorite using the user editor . 186 5.3 Using view editor to define new views and menus . 194 5.3.1 Customizing an existing menu . 194 5.3.2 Creating a new view set by copying an existing object . 205 5.3.3 Adding a new view to a menu . 224 5.3.4 Creating a new view set for a resource table . 238 Chapter 6. Problem determination. 309 6.1 Storage problems . 310 6.1.1 The scenario . 310 6.2 VSAM file control problems . 318 6.2.1 VSAM LSR high-volume scenario. 319 6.3 DB2 problems . 343 6.3.1 Scenario: DB2 connection drop . 344 6.3.2 Insufficient pool threads cause MAXTASK . 362 6.4 Historical Fault Diagnosis . 374 6.4.1 The scenario . 374 6.4.2 Setting up the CICSPlex SM environment to assist in diagnosis . 375 Chapter 7. Hints and tips . 383 iv CICS System Manager in the WUI as the Principle Management Interface 7.1 Invalid EYUWREP key size. 384 7.2 Invalid DFHTEMP size . 384 7.3 INACTIVETIMEOUT parameter . 385 7.4 MASes fail to connect to the local CMAS at startup . 385 7.5 MAS initialization times out with message EYUNL0090W . 386 7.6 Problems setting up SSL security . 387 7.6.1 WUI server initialization failed and the region terminated . 387 7.6.2 Creation of EYUWUI TCPIPSERVICE fails . 387 7.7 Handling large amounts of output from WUI views . 388 7.8 History recording . 391 Chapter 8. Security . 393 8.1 Control access to WUI resources: menus, views, and view editor . 394 8.2 Control access to CICSPlex SM resources, CPSMOBJ resource class . 395 8.3 Control access to CICS resources - simulating CICS security . 398 8.4 Secure transmission of data - SSL and Web User Interface. 403 8.4.1 Prepare the CICS region. 403 8.4.2 Build the key ring. 405 8.4.3 Set WUI TCP/IP related system parameters. 410 8.4.4 Start the WUI server . 410 8.4.5 Connect to the WUI server using SSL . 411 8.5 Referenced publications . 416 Appendix A. Additional material . 417 Locating the Web material . 417 Using the Web material . 417 System requirements for downloading the Web material . 418 How to use the Web material . ..