To send copies of resource definitions from your system to remote
sites that might or might not have CICSĀ® Configuration
Manager:
- Use CICS Configuration
Manager to
write the resource definitions to a CICS configuration
that refers to an export file.
To define a CICS configuration that refers to an export
file:
- Select primary menu option 1.2 CICS Configurations.
- On the command line, enter DEF.
For
details, see Defining CICS configurations that refer to export files.
There are several ways to write resource definitions to a CICS configuration (these apply
to any CICS configuration,
not just those that refer to export files):
- Edit or view a resource definition, and then enter SAVEAS on the command line, and specify
the CICS configuration that
refers to the export file.
- Display a list
panel of resource definitions, and then enter C (Copy) next to the resource definitions
that you want to write to the export file, and specify the CICS configuration that refers
to the export file.
- Package resource definitions into a change package, and then migrate
the change package to the CICS configuration
that refers to the export file.
- Use your preferred method to transfer the export file to the remote
site.
The method that you use to transfer export files to remote
sites depends on your network environment: CICS Configuration
Manager does not transfer
the export file for you. Here is an example scenario for transferring
an export file to a remote site using a combination of file transfer
protocol (FTP) and e-mail:
- Transfer the export file from your z/OSĀ® host
to your PC as a binary file.
- Zip the file on your PC.
- Attach the zipped file to an e-mail message.
- Send the e-mail to the remote site.
Now suppose that you are the person at the remote site who
receives this e-mail:
- Detach the zipped file from the e-mail.
- Unzip the export file.
- Transfer the export file to your z/OS host
as a binary file with a fixed-blocked (FB) record format and a logical
record length of either 80 bytes (for a BATCHREP or DFHCSDUP export
file) or 1500 bytes (for a CICS Configuration
Manager export file).
For
example, if you are using a standard FTP command-line utility, enter
the following FTP commands after logging on:
binary
quote site recfm=fb lrecl=1500
put file_path data_set_name
For details on importing the resource definitions at the remote
site, see Importing resource definitions from an export file.