Creating a CICS bundle project

A CICS® bundle project is the unit of deployment for an application in CICS. A bundle is a collection of CICS resources, artifacts, references, and a manifest file that you can deploy into a CICS region to represent all or part of an application.

About this task

You can create a CICS bundle project using the supplied wizard. A bundle project can include resources that are dynamically created when the bundle is deployed in CICS. The bundle can also contain dependencies, such as system resources for the application. CICS does not dynamically create these system resources but can check that they are present in the CICS region. This separation of resources means that you can install the same application into multiple CICS regions without having to repackage or redeploy the bundle.

Procedure

  1. On the Eclipse menu bar click File > New > Other to open the New Project wizard.
  2. Expand the CICS Resources folder and click CICS Bundle project.
  3. In the Project Name field, enter a name for the project.
  4. Click Default location to use the default file location to create the bundle. You can also deselect this option and specify another file location.
  5. Click Finish to create the project in the Project Explorer.

Results

The bundle project is created. The project has a META-INF folder, which contains the cics.xml manifest file.

What to do next

Add resources to the bundle project for your application.
Note: When you have created and deployed your bundle using CICS Explorer®, you must ensure proper management of the bundle source. The bundle cannot be reconstructed from the exported data in zFS, and a failure of your workstation might cause the data to be lost. You can use the Export function of the CICS Explorer to export the bundle project and check it in to a source code management system.