FCT

The FCT system initialization parameter specifies the suffix of the file control table to be used.

FCT={NO|xx|YES}

This parameter is effective only on a CICS cold or initial start. CICS does not load an FCT on a warm or emergency restart and all file resource definitions are recovered from the global catalog.

For information about coding the macros for this table, see FCT - file control table.

You can use a mixture of macro definitions and RDO definitions for files in your CICS region. However, your FCT should contain definitions for only BDAM files to be loaded on a CICS cold start. Other types of files are loaded from their file definitions in RDO groups specified in the GRPLIST system initialization parameter. Any definitions in the FCT other than for BDAM files are ignored.