Finding further information and getting help
CICS® DA help information is built in to the product. A CICS DA User Guide is integrated in the product, and you can get additional help in several ways.
If you are new to CICS DA you can start by reading the basic tutorial in the Help Contents pages. If you need help while using CICS DA you can use the help keys.
- Help Contents
- The main help for CICS DA is the CICS Deployment Assistant User Guide. The user guide is available by clicking Help Contents from the workbench Help menu. The Help Contents view opens in a new window and contains the user guide, which includes a basic tutorial, example tasks, and reference information. The Help Contents view is also searchable. The Help Contents pages include help for the CICS Explorer®, and any other plug-ins that are installed.
- Context or "F1" help
- Context help is available for every view, wizard, and dialog. When you select a view, pressing the F1 key displays the Dynamic Help view, which provides a short description of the view. Links take you to additional, more detailed help topics.
- Dynamic Help
- To open the Dynamic Help view, press the F1 key (Ctrl-F1 on Linux). The Dynamic Help view, which opens inside the CICS DA workbench, displays contextual help for every view, wizard, and dialog. The view also includes additional links to more detailed help topics. In the Dynamic Help view, you can bookmark topics or find related topics. You can set up the search scope to search on remote content, such as information in remote information centers, either through an intranet or the internet. You can perform the search using external Web search engines such as Google. These tasks are described in the CICS Explorer User Guide in the Help Contents pages.