Exporting a CICS DA system model

When you have discovered your CICS® systems and imported them into the model, you can export the model to a file system for offline analysis or for sharing with other users. Exporting the model only creates a copy and does not maintain any version information. If you want to share the model and manage the version you must use a content management system.

About this task

This task describes how to export CICS systems information in a project to a local or a remote file system.

Procedure

  1. Right-click the CICS Deployment Assistant project containing the model you want to export.
  2. Click Export. The Export dialog opens.
  3. In the Export dialog expand the General tree and click File System. Click Next.
  4. Review the resources to export. By default the project you chose, and all the files in the project are selected. You can select from the following options:
    • You can select a different project, or select more than one project. When you select a project check box, all files in the project are selected.
    • You can view the files in the project, and modify the selection, by clicking the project name.
    • You can click Filter Types and filter the file types you want to select.
  5. In the To directory field, specify the name of the directory that you want to export to. Click Finish.

What to do next

The model is exported to the selected directory and is saved in a folder with the same name as the project. There is one file in the folder for each CICS region. You can open the files with a text editor to see the information for a specific CICS region.

You can share the folder with other users and they can use the import function to import the project into their CICS DA environment. See the topic for further details.