This tutorial introduces the CICS® Deployment
Assistant and outlines the basic functions to help you start using
it. You can find additional information in the Tasks section in this
help.
Starting CICS DA for the first time
The first time CICS Explorer starts after CICS
DA is installed, the Welcome screen is shown. Click the Workbench icon to close the Welcome page and view the Workbench. You open
the CICS DA perspective by
clicking the Open Perspective icon next to the shortcut bar, then clicking Other
> CICS DA and then OK. Alternatively,
click Window > Open Perspective on the Explorer
menu bar and click Other > CICS DA and then OK.
Configuring a CICS DA system connection
CICS Deployment
Assistant uses several types of connections to access the CICS DA host component: an FTP
connection, CMCI or CICSPlex® SM
data interface connections, and HTTP connections. In configuring the CICS DA system connection, you
provide details about the connection, credentials, type of FTP connection
(implicit or explicit), and other related details.
Discovering and creating the system model
When you perform a discovery operation you import the discovered
system information into a CICS DA
Project. The system information contained in the project is known
as the system model.