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Who Should Use This Guide

This guide is intended for the person responsible for creating and maintaining DC/UCF system definitions. Typically, this person is the system administrator.

This guide:

• Provides conceptual information needed to define a CA IDMS/DC and DC/UCF system
• Explains how to define a DC/UCF system
• Serves as a reference for system generation statements and JCL used to define a DC/UCF system

This guide uses the term CA IDMS to refer to any one of the following components:

• CA IDMS/DB—The database management system
• CA IDMS/DC—The data communications system and proprietary teleprocessing monitor
• DC/UCF—The universal communications facility for accessing IDMS database and data communications services through another teleprocessing monitor, such as CICS
• CA IDMS DDS—The distributed database system

The terms DB, DC, UCF, and DDS are used to identify the specific CA IDMS component only when it is important to your understanding of the product.