Administering BAS

You can use business application services to manage CICS® resources.

Introduction to BAS
Business Application Services is the component of CICSPlex® SM that is responsible for managing the CICS resource definition and installation process for business applications at your enterprise.
Methods of accessing BAS
CICS provides a number of interfaces for defining and managing BAS.
The BAS objects
A BAS object is an instance of a CICS resource in the CICSplex. Whichever interface you use to access BAS, the objects that you are interacting with are essentially the same.
Comparison of CEDA and BAS functions
BAS security considerations
Because of the importance of resource definitions to your CICSplex environment, CICSPlex SM enables you to define security for the BAS facilities.
Using the Web User Interface
Resource definition sets
Management of CICS resources using CICSPlex SM
Identifying remote resources to CICSPlex SM
Installation of CICS resources
You can use Business Application Services (BAS) to install CICS resources. As with CICS itself, CICSPlex SM can install resources either automatically at system initialization time or dynamically into an active system.
Deciding where resources should be installed
Automatic resource installation
Dynamic resource installation
Extracting records from the CSD
Example BAS tasks
Resource assignment definitions
Resource assignments in resource descriptions
Resource assignment process
Selecting resources by resource description
Resource descriptions
Resource groups definition view
Resource groups in description
Resource definitions in resource group
CICS system link definitions
With Business Application Services, you can create one system link (SYSLINK) for each pair of CICS regions. The system link definition describes the connection type and definitions that are required between the pair of regions. You can reuse connection definitions to create any number of system links that share the same characteristics.
CICS system resources