You can download and install a copy of some, or all, of
any supported CICS® Information
Center into your CICS Explorer®.
Because the documentation you download is local, you can search and
view it easily from within the CICS
Explorer.
Before you begin
Supported CICS Information
Centers are available through an Eclipse software update site, so
you can install a CICS Information
Center in CICS Explorer.
However, the complete CICS Information
Center is very large, so you might consider downloading only some
of the topics. You can select the topics to download during the software
update process.
For information about supported CICS Information Centers and the paths to the CICS information center update
sites, see CICS information center.
Procedure
- Add the update site for the CICS Information
Center to CICS Explorer:
- Click the menu bar. The Available
Software view opens.
- Click Add to open the Add Repository
dialog.
- In the Name field, type a name
to identify the site, for example CICS TS 5.2 Information
Center.
- In the Location field, type
the path to the Information center update site, for example http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/cics/infocenter/5.2. For the current paths to the CICS information
center update sites, see CICS information center.
- Click OK.
Note: You can have only one version of the CICS TS Information Center installed at a time.
If you want to change the installed version of the Information center
for a different version, you must uninstall the current version first.
Select it in the Installed Software page and click Uninstall.
- Ensure that the Group items by category check
box is not selected. CICS
Explorer connects to the update site and displays a list of the
documentation that is available for download. This action might take
a while depending on your network connection. Click the check box to select the documentation to download.
Most of the CICS TS documentation,
including the PDF files, is contained in the file CICS TS Vx.x primary information.
- Click Next. In the Install Details
view, review the items to install and click Next.
The information center has an open license, but you must still agree
to the terms of the license agreement, then click Finish.
The selected software is downloaded and installed in the CICS Explorer.
Results
When all the software is downloaded successfully and the necessary
files have been installed into the product, you are prompted to restart CICS Explorer. Click
Yes when
you are asked to exit and restart the Workbench for the changes to
take effect. When CICS
Explorer restarts, the CICS Information
Center topics are displayed in the Help Contents view, and any search
identifies results in the CICS Information
Center topics as well as the CICS
Explorer help topics.