Providing CICS® resource definitions for FM/CICS on interconnected regions

FM/CICS can be used to edit, list, and so on, CICS® resources that are owned by remote CICS® regions. An active connection must be available on the region where the FM/CICS interface is running, to the resource-owning CICS® region. In addition, on each of the remote resource-owning CICS® regions, you must:

  • Add the FM/CICS load library to the DFHRPL DD statement in the CICS® startup procedure. This will be FMN.SFMNMOD2 if you installed FM/CICS into the default libraries.

    If you have installed the FM/CICS Japanese component, add the FM/CICS Japanese load library to the DFHRPL DD in front of FMN.SFMNMOD2. The default Japanese load library is FMN.SFMNMODJ.

  • Define and install the required FM/CICS load modules, FMN3CICS and FMNLVL, in the CSD group, FMNCICS. You can do this using the sample job FMN3INSR. Modify and run this job against the CSD of the interconnected regions to define the required FM/CICS resources on the remote regions. You do this as follows:
    1. Copy the member FMN3INSR from FMN.SFMNSAM1 into your own JCL library.
    2. Modify FMN3INSR in your library.
      • Change the job card to meet your site's requirements.
      • Change #cicshlq to the high level qualifier for your CICS® libraries.
      • Change #cee to the high level qualifier for your Language Environment® libraries. Remove the reference if Language Environment® is available from LINKLIST.
      • Change #csddsn to the data set name of the DFHCSD file.

After you have done this, a resource owned by a remote CICS® region can be processed through the FM/CICS interface by specifying the SYSID of the remote CICS® region.

Note: The service level (PTF level) of the FM/CICS load modules must be the same (or higher) on all interconnected regions that you want the FM/CICS interface to link to, as on the local region.

This will automatically be true if you use the same FM/CICS load library for all your interconnected CICS® regions. If you do not use the same load library, you must ensure that all the load libraries have the same service level applied. If FM/CICS calls another region to process remote files, an error message is produced if the remote region is not at the required service level.