Configuring CICS for CICS Explorer installation

To manage CICS® with CICS Explorer®, you must decide how you want CICS Explorer to run in your organization, apply the correct service to your CICS systems, and configure CICS or CICSPlex® SM to use the CICS management client interface.

Prerequisites

For a successful system connection, CICS Explorer must determine the CICSPlex topology. To determine the topology, CICS Explorer requires at least READ access to the following CICSPlex resource tables:
  • CMAS resource table
  • CICSplex configuration definition resource table
  • CICS region data operations resource table

You must ensure that your security manager configuration provides this minimum level of access to the function and type combinations CONFIG.DEF, TOPOLOGY.DEF, and OPERATE.REGION for each user ID that uses CICS Explorer.

CICS Explorer also requires that a default CMAS context is set for the WUI. This context is set in the WUI parameter DEFAULTCMASCTXT. Failure to set the context results in the error IZE0106E error with INVALIDPARM CONTEXT while connecting CICS Explorer.

Configuring CICS for CICS Explorer to access

You must configure CICSPlex SM or your CICS regions so that end users can connect CICS Explorer to CICS regions.

CICS Explorer can connect to CICS systems through these connections:
CICS management client interface (CMCI) connection

Provides the ability to read, update, create, and install definitions, as well as performing actions against installed resources.

Provides connection to a CICSplex or to a single CICS region (SMSS). For more information on how to set up a CMCI connection, see Configuring for CICS Explorer in the CICS TS 6.1.0 product documentation.

Note: If you are connecting to a CICS TS for VSE/ESA 1.1.1 system, the CMCI connection provides read-only capability.
SM Data connection to a CICSPlex SM WUI server
Provides read-only access to definitions and installed resources.

What's next

To configure the FTP server for CICS Explorer, see Configuring the FTP server for CICS Explorer in the CICS TS 6.1.0 product documentation.