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Adding IPCS support

If after completion of the Abend-AID installation at your site, you want to add IPCS support, do the following:

Step 1. Allocate the IPCS Directory

The IPCS directory used by Abend-AID is a standard IPCS directory. There is one IPCS directory per Abend-AID viewing server, and you cannot share IPCS directories between viewing servers. Further, do not access the viewing server’s IPCS directory outside of Abend-AID for CICS.

Member $63IPCS in the installation sample library (CTL) contains a job to allocate the IPCS directory using IDCAMS. The job then initializes the file using an Abend-AID for CICS utility. Before you run $63IPCS, make the following modifications:

  1.  Change the IPCS directory data set name to the name you choose for the file. The data set name is specified four times in the job.
  2.  Verify that the volume serial number or SMS storage and management class conform to your site standard.
  3.  Verify that the //STEPLIB DD statement points to a concatenation of your Abend-AID Common Components, ECC, and Abend-AID/Abend-AID for CICS target nonauthorized load libraries (SKAZLOAD, SLCXLOAD, and SPAALOAD/SKFXLOAD), in that order.

Step 2. Modify the Viewing Server JCL

Modify the view server JCL as described in Making-IPCS-specifications.

Step 3. Stop and Restart the Viewing Server

After you complete the two previous steps, you must stop and then restart the viewing server.

Note

You can restrict access to the IPCS Command Facility by coding the IPCS subparameter of the EXTERNAL_SECURITY_FUNCTION_CHECK viewing server configuration parameter. See Parameters to Enable External Security for Viewing Servers for more information.


 

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