CICS® CM plug-in provides
an Eclipse-based infrastructure to view and manage CICS Configuration Manager (CICS CM) resource definitions across an enterprise.
It supports a subset of the function available in CICS CM.
CICS CM provides a single
point of control for editing, reporting, and migrating CICS resource definitions across an enterprise. CICS CM is a CICS application that can read from and write
to a CICS system definition
(CSD) files and CICSPlex® SM
contexts. For more information about CICS CM
see the CICS CM
for z/OS® User's Guide.
Using the CICS CM plug-in,
you can perform the following tasks:
- View all the CICS CM configurations.
See Configurations
view for further details.
- View all lists in a configuration and groups in a list. See Lists view for further
details.
- View all groups in a configuration. See Groups view for further
details.
- View orphaned resources and groups in a CICSPlex SM configuration. See Configurations view for
further details.
- View orphaned groups in a configuration. See Configurations view for
further details.
- View history for, resource definitions, configurations and groups
and restore changes made to a resource definition. See History view for further
details.
- View, edit, and delete resource definitions. See Definitions views for
further details.
- Search across one or more configurations and search across one
or more groups in a configuration. See Searching for a resource for
further details.
- Create new resources. See Creating a resource for further
details.
- Install resources from a Configuration in one or more active CICS systems. See Creating a resource for further
details.
- Compare two lists in the same configuration, two groups in the
same or different configurations, or two of the same type of definition.
See Comparing resources for
further details.
- Search for groups, see Searching for a group for
further details.
- Search the history for a configuration or a group. See Searching for history for further details.
- Install a group if you have a CICSPlex SM connection. See Installing a group for
further details.
- Next steps:
If you are new to the Eclipse interface, you can read about
Eclipse in the Concepts topic in the CICS Explorer™ User Guide in the help.
If
you are familiar with the Eclipse interface, see Basic tutorial in the CICS Explorer User Guide. To learn
how to use CICS Explorer with
the CICS CM plug-in, also see Basic tutorial.
Alternatively,
you can use the Search bar to find specific information in this help.