This section describes activating the Information Center Facility for existing and new users.

• Certain data sets are required for the Information Center Facility. You must create any of the data sets listed in Table 1 that are not present on your system. The attributes for these data sets must conform to the attributes of your ISPF/PDF table libraries. The minimum space allocation for each data set is 221 blocks. You may want to allocate more space to allow room for future expansion.

  The tables distributed with the Information Center Facility are copied to the data sets shown in Table 1 by the ICQPOST1 and ICQPOST2 jobs. These jobs are in SYS1.SAMPLIB.

  Table 1. Information center facility data sets to allocate

  Data set	Description
  ICQ.ICQABTAB	Course abstracts
  ICQ.ICQGCTAB	User requests
  ICQ.ICQAATAB	Names
  ICQ.ICQANTAB	News
  ICQ.ICQTLIB	User enrollment tables
  ICQ.ICQAPTAB	Printer support
  ICQ.ICQAMTAB	Administrator Application Manager tables
  ICQ.ICQCMTAB	User Application Manager tables

  The data sets are assigned to DD names in the Information Center Facility logon procedure. Ensure that data set names match their DD names to simplify installation and problem determination. However, TSO/E does not define the data set names explicitly, so you can rename them to match naming conventions used on your system.

  If you rename data sets or DD names, you must update the Information Center Facility logon procedure with the data-set or DD names.

  Exception: If you rename any of the data sets or DD names listed below, you must use the Information Center Facility application manager to change the data set names or DD names listed to the right.

  If you rename:	Change DD or data set names for:
  ICQGCTAB or	Administrator and user courses,
  ICQ.ICQGCTAB	administrator and user names
  ICQTABL or	User enrollment, ISPF defaults,
  ICQ.ICQTLIB	user types, and administrator names

  You can also use a single data set for all functions by using the same data set name on all DD statements. However, using separate data sets allows you to identify a different administrator for each function. You could then use RACF® or another protection facility to restrict access as needed.

• If you activated the Information Center Facility in TSO/E Version 2.1.0, run the conversion routine described in Migrating application manager tables from previous releases of the information center facility to preserve customization.
• If you have never activated the Information Center Facility before, copy, edit, and execute members ICQPOST1 and ICQPOST2 in ICQ.ICQSAMP. When you execute ICQPOST1 and ICQPOST2, certain shipped library members are copied to other libraries.
• The Information Center Facility provides some non-display panels for customization. For example, if your installation calls IEBCOPY differently, you need to modify the following command in non-display panel ICQSIE00.

    &IEBCOPY = 'TSOEXEC CALL ''''SYS1.LINKLIB(IEBCOPY)'''''
                         /* TSO command to invoke IEBCOPY.
                         /* Extra quotes are required for
                         /* passing the string into the CLIST.

  For more information about customizing the non-display panels, see Customizing the Information Center Facility.

• If you have APL installed and have not done so for a previous release, create a physical sequential data set with the name @PL.@W000051.ICQUPDTS. The data set must have a RECFM of FBS, an LRECL of 80, and a BLKSIZE of 4240. The minimum space you can allocate is 5 blocks. You might want to allocate more space to allow room for future expansion.

  Copy member ICQAPL01 from ICQ.ICQAPL to @PL.@W000051.ICQUPDTS. If you have changed any workspace-naming variables in module APLYUOPT, make certain you use the same names in naming workspace 51 ICQUPDTS and in panel ICQSIECR. The default data set name is @PL.@W000051.ICQUPDTS. Panel ICQSIECR is a member of ICQ.ICQPLIB.

• If you have not already done so, create two logon procedures; one for administrators and one for end users. If you created the logon procedures previously, you might need to modify them. You can find a sample procedure, ICQAPROC, in ICQ.ICQSAMP. Edit ICQAPROC to create the administrator logon procedure. Then make a copy of ICQAPROC, and edit it to create the end user logon procedure, ICQPROC.

  ICQAPROC is based on an existing ISPF logon procedure. ICQAPROC uses CLIST ICQICF, which resides in ICQ.ICQCCLIB. ICQAPROC calls ICQICF to invoke ISPF and use application manager to invoke the initial application. You might want to rename and modify ICQICF for your installation. ICQICF checks the user's profile data set to see if the EDIT and PROFILE tables exist. The ISPF profile must be cataloged, if it exists.

  Read the prologue for instructions if ICQAPROC on DD statements to delete.

• The CLIST libraries ICQ.ICQACLIB and ICQ.ICQCCLIB are distributed with a RECFM of FB and an LRECL of 80. If your production ISPF CLIST data sets have a RECFM of VB, run the CLIST ICQSMC00, a member of ICQ.ICQSAMP, against ICQ.ICQACLIB and ICQ.ICQCCLIB. ICQSMC00 converts the CLIST data set members from a RECFM of FB to a RECFM of VB.

  Maintenance for TSO/E CLISTs is supplied through PUT tapes. For SMP/E users, PTFs are held for documentation by the ++HOLD card.