Export and import without CICS Configuration Manager
Before learning how to export and import resource definitions with CICSĀ® Configuration Manager, it is worthwhile reviewing how to do this with the existing techniques provided by CICS Transaction Server for z/OSĀ®, because CICS Configuration Manager builds on these techniques:
- To export resource definitions from a CSD file, you use the CICS system definition utility program DFHCSDUP. This creates a "DFHCSDUP export file".
- To export resource definitions from a CICSPlex SM data repository, either you use the CICSPlex SM batched repository update facility BATCHREP, or you use DFHCSDUP with the CICSPlex SM exit program EYU9BCSD. Both methods produce a file that we will call a "BATCHREP export file" (regardless of how we created the file, we will use BATCHREP to import it). This BATCHREP export file consists of CICSPlex SM CREATE commands for the extracted resource definitions.
- After transferring the export file to another system, you import the resource definitions in the file using either DFHCSDUP (for a DFHCSDUP export file) or BATCHREP (for a BATCHREP export file).
Figure 1. Exporting and importing resource definitions without CICS Configuration
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