Personal System Definitions Menu
- For a System, you can specify the SMF Files it uses and the Groups it belongs to.
- For an SMF File, you can specify the Systems that use it.
- For a Group, you can specify the Systems that belong to it.
This menu also provides a Data Take-up facility to extract details of Systems from an SMF File for automatic take-up into your System Definitions.
Bypassing the Personal System Definitions Menu
You can bypass the Personal System Definitions Menu by selecting Always go directly to Systems View. Then option 1 from the Primary Option Menu will always go directly to the Personal System Definitions panel.
To access the Systems, SMF Files, and Groups panels without using the menu, select from View in the action bar or enter one of the commands VIEW SYSTEMS, VIEW FILES, or VIEW GROUPS.
To redisplay the menu, select View->Menu in the action bar or enter the MENU command.
Regardless of your bypass choice, if you have Automatic Save on Exit set to PROMPT in your Profile Settings, the menu will always be displayed when you attempt to exit System Definitions. This allows you to enter SAVE or CANCEL before exit.
Primary Commands
- SAVE
- This command saves any
changes you have made during this invocation of System Definitions.
Also available from File in the action bar.
- CONFIRM ON|OFF
- CONFIRM ON (or CONFIRM)
instructs CICS PA to
prompt for confirmation when you request to Cancel from System Definitions
when there are changes. With CONFIRM OFF, Cancel requests are
actioned immediately, discarding any changes.
The CONFIRM command changes the setting only for the current invocation of System Definitions. On exit, it reverts to the default set by Cancel Confirmation in CICS PA Settings.
Also available from Confirm in the action bar.
- The SAVE command is available only at the four possible “exit points” of System Definitions: the Menu, and the Systems, SMF Files, and Groups views. All System Definitions changes are saved upon issuing a SAVE command from any of these panels.
- Updates to the current view are saved when you change views (VIEW SYSTEMS|FILES|GROUPS command) or display the menu (MENU command).
- CANCEL (F12) discards all updates.
- EXIT (F3) saves your System Definitions as follows:
- If the System Definitions Menu is not being bypassed, your System Definitions are not saved until Exit from the Menu.
- If the System Definitions Menu is being bypassed, your System Definitions are saved on Exit from any view (Systems, Files, or Groups).