What's new in this release?
Version 1.1.0.2 contains
minor defect fixes and toleration changes in support of CICS TS version
4.2.
Using CICS Explorer version 1.1.0 and CICS Deployment Assistant
version 1.1.0.2, you can now manage CICS TS version 4.2 regions. However
CICS DA 1.1.0.2 does not support the new features of CICS TS version
4.2.
The ability to discover CICS TS v4.2 systems with this updated version of the IBM CICS Deployment Assistant plug-in for CICS Explorer is also dependent upon APAR PM38405 being applied to the CICS DA z/OS component.
For a list of the APARs and problems that
are fixed in CICS Deployment Assistant Version 1.1.0.2,
see the Retain system.
Back
to Contents
Installation process
There
are three tasks that must be performed to complete the installation
of the CICS® Deployment Assistant:
- Install the CICS DA host component, Program Number 5655-W48. Details
are in the "Program Directory for IBM CICS Deployment Assistant
for z/OS V1.1.0".
- Perform the post-installation configuration of CICS. See Installing and configuring CICS DA in the CICS
Deployment Assistant for z/OS, V1.1 documentation in the CICS Transaction
Server for z/OS®, Version 4 Release 2 information center.
- Download and install the CICS DA plug-in. See the section Downloading and installing the CICS Deployment Assistant plug-in for more information.
Back to Contents
Downloading and installing the CICS Deployment Assistant plug-in
To
download the CICS Deployment
Assistant plug-in from the download Web site:
- Click the CICS Deployment
Assistant plug-in V1.1.0.2 download link.
- Save the compressed file in a temporary directory. Do NOT extract
the file. The CICS Explorer™ extracts
the contents automatically.
To install the CICS Deployment
Assistant plug-in in the CICS
Explorer:
- Start the CICS Explorer.
- Click Help > Software Updates on the CICS Explorer menu bar.
The Software Updates and Add-ons window is displayed.
- Click the Available Software tab.
- Click Add Site and in the Add Site dialog
click Archive. The Repository archive dialog
box is displayed.
- Locate and select the CICS Deployment
Assistant plug-in compressed file you downloaded previously, and click Open.
- Click OK in the Add Site dialog box. The
dialog box closes and CICS-Deployment Assistant is displayed in the
Software Updates and Add-ons dialog box.
- Select the check box alongside the CICS Deployment Assistant entry.
- Click Install.
- In the Install dialog box, confirm the installation by clicking Next.
- Review the license and click the relevant radio button. Click Finish to
complete the installation, or Cancel if you do not accept the license.
If you accepted the license, the CICS Deployment
Assistant plug-in is installed into the CICS Explorer. You are prompted to
restart the CICS Explorer to
ensure that the plug-in starts in a clean environment.
Back to Contents
Getting started
If
you are not familiar with CICS Deployment
Assistant you can read the Getting Started information in the help
documentation. Click to display the
basic tutorial for the CICS Deployment
Assistant.
Back to Contents
Known issues and limitations
The
following limitations exist in CICS Deployment Assistant version 1.1.0.2
- When you use the Team support function to synchronize with a shared
system model you might find that changes in the shared model are not
shown in your local model. To show the changes you must close and
reopen the DA project that contains the local model. When you have
reopened the project, select the project and press F5 to
refresh the information. The project should now show the updated content.
- If you add an unmanaged CICS region to a CICSplex, after you stop
and start the CICS region the associated CMAS, DB2, and WebSphere
MQ connections are not shown in either the region editor or the system
model. To show the changes you must select the WUI server associated
with the CICSplex and rediscover the CICSplex resources.
- Using CICS Deployment Assistant version 1.1.0.2 you can now manage
CICS TS version 4.2 regions, however CICS Deployment Assistant 1.1.0.2
does not support the new features of CICS TS version 4.2.
Back to Contents