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How the Auto Populate Facility Works

The AutoAssist Auto Populate Facility helps you define selected resources to a system image quickly by using templates. You can use the facility to define CICS jobs, started tasks, files, links, and transactions. You need to define database resources accessible by CICS manually.

Also, CA SOLVE:Operations Automation for CICS does not provide templates for CICS job resource definitions. If you want to use this facility for jobs, you need to first define job templates. You can define them by basing them on the supplied CICS started task templates.

The facility does not overwrite existing definitions.

Important! Populating an active system image can degrade system response time. Try to populate an image before you load it in the region. If you must populate a large number of resource definitions in an active image, do it when the system is not busy.

The Auto Populate Facility operates as follows:

1. It uses the parameters specified on the CICS Auto Populate menu to build the list of resources.
2. From the list, you select the resources that are to be defined.
3. It creates the definitions by using the assigned templates.