You can download and install a copy of the CICS® Information Center into your CICS Explorer™. Because the documentation
you download is local, you can be search and view it easily from within
the CICS Explorer.
Before you begin
The CICS Information
Center is available as an Eclipse software update site which means
that you can install it in the CICS
Explorer. However in its entirety it is very large, so you might
consider downloading only some of the topics. You can select the topics
to download during the software update process.
Procedure
- Prepare the update site for the CICS Information center.
For CICS TS version 4.1. The update site is already
predefined in CICS Explorer, but it must be enabled before it can
be accessed.
- Click Help > Software Updates on the menu
bar.
- Click Available Software.
- Click Manage Sites.
- Select the check box next to http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cicsts/4.1/ and
click OK to enable the update site.
For CICS TS version 3.2.
- Click Help > Software Updates on the menu
bar.
- Click Available Software.
- Click Add Site.
- In the Add Site dialog, specify the location
of the CICS Information Center
update site and click OK. The update site for CICS TS version 3.2 is located
at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cicsts/3.2/
Note: You can only have one version of the CICS TS Information Center installed
at a time. If you want to change the installed version of the Information
center for a different version, you must uninstall the current version
first. Select it in the Installed Software page and click Uninstall.
- The update site is added to the list of available software.
The CICS Explorer interrogates
the update site and displays a list of the software available for
download as shown in this screen capture of the CICS TS v4.1 update site. Click the check box to select the documentation to download.
Most of the CICS TS documentation,
including the PDF files, is contained in the file CICS TS Vx.x primary information.
- Click Install. The selected software
is downloaded and installed in the CICS Explorer.
Results
When all the software is downloaded successfully and the necessary
files have been installed into the product, you are prompted to restart
the CICS Explorer.
Click
Yes when you are asked to exit and restart
the Workbench for the changes to take effect. When the CICS Explorer restarts, the CICS Information Center topics
are displayed in the Help Contents view, and any search identifies
results in the CICS Information
Center topics as well as the CICS
Explorer help topics.