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:

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.


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