Working with platforms and applications
You can use the CICS® Cloud perspective and the Cloud Explorer view to work with platforms and applications in CICS.
About this task
- A platform provides a set of services to applications. The platform is a simple layer of abstraction to decouple applications from the underlying topology of CICS regions. A platform contains one or more region types, each of which contains one or more CICS regions.
- An application is packaged and deployed on a platform as a single resource. The application is managed as a single entity throughout its lifecycle, making CICS application management faster, easier, and less error prone. Application resources can be dynamically installed across the region types in the platform, and removed or updated as required.
Using the CICS Cloud perspective, you can create, deploy, and administer platforms and applications in bundles. Platforms and applications are defined in platform bundles and application bundles, which are types of management bundle.