Exporting a CICS bundle project to your local file system

You can deploy your event binding file to a CICS® system by exporting a bundle to your local file system, and then transferring the exported archive file to your z/OS UNIX file system.

Procedure

  1. Right-click your CICS Bundle project in the project explorer and select Export. The Export window opens.
  2. Click on Archive File in the tree.
  3. Click Next.
  4. Ensure that all the files in the project are selected in the upper panes. Enter a file name in the To archive file field. Select Save in .zip format.
  5. Click Finish.

Results

You have exported a bundle to your local file system. You must now transfer the archive file to your z/OS UNIX file system and extract it into a directory. The directory is specified to CICS when you define your bundle resource, so CICS must have read access to it. You can now define and install your bundle resource definition in your CICS system.
Note: The unpacked event binding file has an .xml suffix, and is in the UTF-8 ASCII (Unicode) format. The file is not readable in a z/OS text editor.