You can deploy an application as a CICS® bundle project from CICS Explorer™ and use a BUNDLE resource
to create resources dynamically for you. The BUNDLE resource represents
the application, so you can also manage its availability in CICS by enabling and disabling
the BUNDLE resource.
About this task
A bundle project is a collection of CICS resources, artifacts, references, and a
manifest that you can deploy into a CICS region
to represent all or part of an application. The manifest is a file
that describes the contents of the bundle, including any 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 repackaging or redeploying the bundle.
When you have created
a CICS bundle project in CICS Explorer, you must
export it to a CICS region.
You can either export the bundle project as a .zip file to the local
file system, transfer the archive file to z/OS® UNIX,
and extract it into a directory, or you can export the project directly
to z/OS UNIX. You must also define and enable a BUNDLE
resource for the bundle project. CICS will
then create the bundle project application resources dynamically for
you.
Note: You can only export a bundle directly to a z/OS UNIX file
system if your network is using Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4).
The procedure does not work for IPv6 networks. The port can be secured
to accept SSL traffic; if this is done, CICS Explorer detects this and switches
to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) mode so that no data flows unencrypted.
If an SSL connection cannot be established, basic authentication is
used.
What to do next
You can manage bundle project application availability in CICS by enabling and disabling
the BUNDLE resource.