Overview
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 CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS product documentation in the CICS TS information center.
- 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.
- View, create and delete platform definitions. See Platforms view for further details.
- View, create and delete application definitions. See Applications view for further details.
- Ready, unready, or submit change packages, and see the commands in a change package. See Working with change packages 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.