You can download and install a copy of some, or all, of
the CICS® Information Center
into your CICS Explorer®.
Because the documentation you download is local, you can 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
- Add the update site for the CICS Information
Center to the CICS Explorer:
For CICS TS
version 5.1.
- Click Help > Install New Software the menu
bar. The Available Software view opens.
- Click Add to open the Add Repository dialog.
- In the Name field type CICS
TS 5.1 Information Center or any other name you want to
identify the site. In the Location field type http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/cics/infocenter/5.1.
This is the path to the Information center update site. Click OK.
For CICS TS
version 4.2.
- Click Help > Install New Software the menu
bar. The Available Software view opens.
- Click Add to open the Add Repository dialog.
- In the Name field type CICS
TS 4.2 Information Center or any other name you want to
identify the site. In the Location field type http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/cics/infocenter/4.2.
This is the path to the Information center update site. Click OK.
For CICS TS
version 4.1.
- Click Help > Install New Software on the
menu bar. The Available Software view opens.
- Click Add to open the Add Repository dialog.
- In the Name field type CICS
TS 4.1 Information Center or any other name you want to
identify the site. In the Location field type http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cicsts/4.1/.
This is the path to the Information center update site. Click OK.
For CICS TS
version 3.2.
- Click Help > Install New Software on the
menu bar. The Available Software view opens.
- Click Add to open the Add Repository dialog.
- In the Name field type CICS
TS 3.2 Information Center or any other name you want to
identify the site. In the Location field type http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cicsts/3.2/.
This is the path to the Information center update site. Click OK.
Note: You can have only 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.
- Ensure that the Group items by category check
box is not selected. CICS
Explorer connects to the update site and displays a list of the
documentation that is available for download. This action might take
a while depending on your network connection. 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 Next. In the Install Details
view, review the items to install and click Next.
The information center has an open license, but you must still agree
to the terms of the license agreement, then click Finish.
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.