A CICS® Bundle
project is the unit of deployment for your application in CICS. A bundle contains a set of
application resources that CICS can dynamically create when the bundle
is deployed.
The bundle can also list the prerequisite
system resources for the application. CICS does not dynamically create
these system resources but can check that they are present in the
CICS region. This separation of resources means that you can install
the same application into multiple CICS regions without having to
repackage or redeploy the bundle. The bundle is deployed to zFS.
About this task
This task creates a new CICS bundle
project.
Procedure
- On the Eclipse menu bar click File > New > Other to
open the New Project wizard.
- Expand the CICS Resources folder
and click CICS Bundle project.
- In the Project Name field, enter
a name for the project and click Finish.
Results
The new bundle project is created. The bundle project has
a META-INF folder, which contains the
cics.xml manifest
file. Before you can deploy the BUNDLE you must edit the bundle and
add details of the CICS plug-ins
that are included in the BUNDLE. See the related topics for more information.
Note: When
you have created and deployed your bundle using the CICS Explorer,
you should ensure proper management of the bundle source. The bundle
cannot be reconstructed from the exported data in zFS, and a failure
of your workstation would cause the data to be lost. You can use the
Export function of CICS Explorer to export the bundle and check it
in to a source code management system.