Installation
Host Prerequisites>
File Manager for z/OS® Eclipse clients should only be used with the same version of File Manager for z/OS on the mainframe. For example, v15.1 Eclipse clients should only be used with File Manager for z/OS v15.1 on the mainframe. Connecting an Eclipse client to a mainframe host at a different version level is not supported (for example, v15.1 client to v14.1 host is not supported).
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Client Installation
The File Manager® plug-in for Eclipse is available for installation via the P2 Eclipse provisioning platform.
Under CICS Explorer™, follow the steps below:
- Click Help > Install New Software...
- Click Add
- Specify the File Manager® plug-in location in the Location field. This will be either a specific update site URL (e.g. http://example.com/updatesite/, a local mirror of the update site (e.g. file:/C:/updatesite/), or an archive file (e.g. jar:file:/C:/updatesite.zip!/).
- Click OK
- Select the appropriate features for your installation environment
- Click Next to review the installation details
- Click Next and review the license agreement(s)
- If you accept the license agreements, select I accept the terms of the license agreement
- Click Finish and wait for the IBM File Manager® plug-in to be installed. If you see a warning about unsigned content, click OK
- Once the installation is complete, a prompt to restart CICS Explorer™ will appear; click Restart Now to restart your Eclipse environment (e.g. CICS Explorer) and complete the installation.
Any P2 platform errors that are reported, such as "plug-in dependency not resolved", must be resolved.
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Showing the Systems Information View
Once installed successfully, open the File Manager perspective:
Click Window > Perspective > Open Perspective > Other...
Select File Manager from the Open Perspectives dialog
Click the Open button
This perspective contains the views used by the File Manager® plug-in:
- The Systems Information view is used for finding resources and performing actions such as editing, copying, etc on them.
- The Properties view shows properties of a resource selected in the Systems Information view.
- The Single Mode Editor view is used for editing single records at a time when a resource is opened in the File Manager® plug-in Formatted Editor.
- The Lookup view is used for looking up error messages.
- The Console view can be used to show a DB2 Command or DB2 SQL console (or any other standard Eclipse console).
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