Before learning how to export and import resource definitions with CICSĀ® Configuration
Manager,
it is worthwhile reviewing how to do this with the existing techniques provided
by CICS Transaction
Server for z/OSĀ®, because CICS Configuration
Manager builds on these techniques:
- To export resource definitions from a CSD file, you use the CICS system
definition utility program DFHCSDUP. This creates a "DFHCSDUP export file".
- To export resource definitions from a CICSPlex SM data repository, either
you use the CICSPlex SM batched repository update facility BATCHREP, or you
use DFHCSDUP with the CICSPlex SM exit program EYU9BCSD. Both methods produce
a file that we will call a "BATCHREP export file" (regardless of how
we created the file, we will use BATCHREP to import it). This BATCHREP export
file consists of CICSPlex SM CREATE commands for the extracted resource definitions.
- After transferring the export file to another system, you import the resource
definitions in the file using either DFHCSDUP (for a DFHCSDUP export file)
or BATCHREP (for a BATCHREP export file).
Figure 1. Exporting and importing resource definitions without CICS Configuration
Manager