ADRLIB needed in Datacom CICS when no CA Ideal?

Products

• CA Datacom
• CA DATACOM - AD
• CA CIS
• CA Common Services for z/OS
• CA 90s Services
• CA Database Management Solutions for DB2 for z/OS
• CA Common Product Services Component
• CA Common Services
• CA Datacom/AD
• CA ecoMeter Server Component FOC
• CA Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services
• CA Infocai Maintenance
• CA IPC
• Unicenter CA-JCLCheck Common Component
• CA Mainframe VM Product Manager
• CA Chorus Software Manager
• CA On Demand Portal
• CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service
• CA PAM Client for Linux for zSeries
• CA Mainframe Connector for Linux on System z
• CA Graphical Management Interface
• CA Web Administrator for Top Secret
• CA CA- Xpertware

Issue/Introduction

Is ADRLIB needed in a Datacom CICS region that is not using CA Ideal?
 

Environment

z/OS
 

Resolution

Yes, even when CA Ideal is not in use in CICS region, the four "ADR" files ADRLIB, ADRPNL, ADROUT, and ADRTRC are needed by CA IPC in a CICS region that used for CA Datacom access by transactions such as DDOL.

VLS file ADRLIB  to contain the messages from the Datacom installation and the CA IPC installation. 
VLS file ADRPNL to contain the Datacom DDOL panels from the Datacom/DB installation.
VLS file ADROUT formatted and initialized.
VLS file ADRTRC formatted and initialized.
 

Additional Information

When installing or upgrading CA IPC, either new installation job VQNEW01 or upgrade installation job VQUPG01 is run on each CICS region to format, initialize.

For details on CA IPC installation related to the ADR files, refer to
CA Datacom Tools - 15.1 section "Customization and Postinstallation Steps for CA IPC"
https://docops.ca.com/ca-datacom-tools/15-1/en/installing/customization-and-postinstallation-steps-for-ca-ipc#CustomizationandPostinstallationStepsforCAIPC-Step1.Allocate/Format/LoadipcLibrariesandFiles