Exporting resource definitions to another site
To send copies of resource definitions from your system to remote sites that might or might not have CICSĀ® Configuration Manager:
- Use CICS Configuration
Manager to
write the resource definitions to a CICS configuration
that refers to an export file.
To define a CICS configuration that refers to an export file:
- Select primary menu option 1.2 CICS Configurations.
- On the command line, enter DEF.
For details, see Defining CICS configurations that refer to export files.
There are several ways to write resource definitions to a CICS configuration (these apply to any CICS configuration, not just those that refer to export files):
- Edit or view a resource definition, and then enter SAVEAS on the command line, and specify the CICS configuration that refers to the export file.
- Display a list panel of resource definitions, and then enter C (Copy) next to the resource definitions that you want to write to the export file, and specify the CICS configuration that refers to the export file.
- Package resource definitions into a change package, and then migrate the change package to the CICS configuration that refers to the export file.
- Use your preferred method to transfer the export file to the remote
site.
The method that you use to transfer export files to remote sites depends on your network environment: CICS Configuration Manager does not transfer the export file for you. Here is an example scenario for transferring an export file to a remote site using a combination of file transfer protocol (FTP) and email:
- Transfer the export file from your z/OSĀ® host to your PC as a binary file.
- Compress the file on your PC.
- Attach the compressed file to an email message.
- Send the email to the remote site.
Now suppose that you are the person at the remote site who receives this email:
- Detach the compressed file from the email.
- Extract the export file.
- Transfer the export file to your z/OS host
as a binary file with a fixed-blocked (FB) record format and a logical
record length of either 80 bytes, for a BATCHREP or DFHCSDUP export
file, or 1500 bytes, for a CICS Configuration
Manager export file.
For example, if you are using a standard FTP command-line utility, enter the following FTP commands after logging on:
binary quote site recfm=fb lrecl=1500 put file_path data_set_name
For details on importing the resource definitions at the remote site, see Importing resource definitions from an export file.