Example export scenario

The following figure shows an example scenario for using a CICSĀ® Configuration Manager export file. In this example, the exporting system is a central application development site for a global enterprise. The importing system is one of several data centers around the world that run the applications developed at the central site. The development site has three isolated environments: development, test, and production, each with a corresponding CICS configuration. The developers at this site update or create resource definitions in the development environment, and then use a change package to migrate them to test, and then to production. The migration to production also migrates to the "Export" CICS configuration, which refers to a CICS Configuration Manager export file. The developers transfer this export file to the data centers. Each data center has an "Import" CICS configuration that refers to the transferred copy of the export file. From here, the CICS administrators at each data center perform an import, with change package registration, to a "Staging" CICS configuration. This copies the resource definitions to the "Staging" CICS configuration, and defines a change package containing the imported resource definitions. After confirming that the imported resource definitions work in the staging environment, the CICS administrators use the change package to migrate the imported resource definitions to the local production environment.

Figure 1. Example export scenario: importing with change package registration

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