CICS DA overview
CICS® Deployment Assistant (CICS DA) is a member of the CICS tools family of products. CICS DA consists of two components: The CICS DA host component, which is installed in your host system by using the SMP/E RECEIVE, APPLY, and ACCEPT commands, and the CICS DA plug-in, which is an Eclipse plug-in that operates inside the IBM® CICS Explorer®.
With CICS DA you can discover, model, visualize, and deploy new and existing CICS regions by using automation and policy-driven advice, improving productivity, and reducing complexity, time to effectiveness, and risk.
Using CICS DA you can run the following tasks:
- Discover and visualize CICSplexes and CICS regions in a sysplex.
- Create a centralized model that can be accessed and shared by all users.
- Export a local copy of the model to a Comma Separated Variable (CSV) file for manipulation is a spreadsheet.
- Discover connectivity relationships and major subsystem dependencies.
- Start and stop CICS regions.
- View held and running z/OS® jobs and the system log.
- Clone existing CICS regions by creating and submitting JCL directly from CICS Explorer.
- Add an existing CICS region to a CICSplex.
Cheat Sheets are also included to assist with CICS version-to-version upgrades.
Note: The system model that is created by CICS DA V1.1 is not compatible with CICS DA V5.3.