Autoinstall

Autoinstall is a method of creating and installing CICS resources dynamically as they are required. You can use autoinstall for SNA LUs, MVS consoles, APPC connections, IPIC connections, programs, map sets, partition sets, and journals.

With autoinstall, you do not have to define and install every resource that you intend to use. Instead, CICS dynamically creates and installs a definition for you when a resource is requested. CICS bases the new definition on a model definition that you provide.

You can use an autoinstall control program to control the way autoinstall operates in your CICS region.

Using autoinstall saves the time that is otherwise used to define and install every resource, and it saves storage, because each installed resource occupies storage whether the resource is being used or not.