Setting up the CICS TS Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting V2.0 target environment

Before you can develop dynamic scripting applications, you must make the CICS® TS Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting V2.0 target platform available to your dynamic scripting applications.

Before you begin

Before you can make the CICS TS Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting V2.0 target platform available, the following conditions must be satisfied:
  • You have the latest level of service installed in your CICS Explorer® SDK.
  • The CICS Explorer SDK is started.

About this task

A target platform consists of a set of plug-ins and environment settings that are used to satisfy dependencies that are required in your application development. CICS provides a run time platform template that contains all the plug-ins for each level of CICS for which you can build applications. The name of the CICS TS Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting target platform is "CICS TS V5.1 Runtime with PHP".

Procedure

  1. Click Window > Preferences from the workbench menu bar to open the Preferences dialog. Expand Plug-in Development and click Target Platform. The Target Platform pane shows the target definitions that exist in your Eclipse environment. If CICS TS V5.1 Runtime with PHP is in the list, the target platform is already available to your applications, so click Cancel, and ignore the following steps in this procedure.
  2. Click Add to add a new target definition. The New Target wizard opens.
  3. Click Template, from the Template list, select CICS TS 5.1 Runtime with PHP, then click Next. The Target Definition editor is displayed. Using the editor, you can change the properties of your target definitions, add other library bundles that are installed in CICS runtime, change the Java™ level, and change other properties. In most instances the default properties are suitable, but you can change them to suit your own requirements. For more help about the editor tabs, press the F1 key (Ctrl+F1 on Linux).
  4. Click Finish, then click OK.

Results

The CICS TS V5.1 Runtime with PHP target platform is available to your dynamic scripting applications.