Installing the CICS Infocenter in the CICS Explorer

You can download and install a copy of the CICS Infocenter into your CICS Explorer, so that all the documentation is local and can be searched and viewed easily from within the CICS Explorer.

Before you begin

The CICS Infocenter 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.

  1. Click Help > Software Updates on the menu bar.
  2. Click the Available Software tab.
  3. Click the Add Site button.
  4. In the Add Site dialog, specify the location of the CICS Infocenter update site and click OK. There are two choices of update site available:
    • The update site for CICS version 4.1 is located at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cicsts/4.1.
    • The update site for CICS version 3.2 is located at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cicsts/3.2.
  5. The update site is added to the list of available software. The CICS Explorer interrogates the update site and displays a list of the software available for download as shown in this screen capture of the CICS TS v3.2 update site.
    A screen capture of the Software Updates dialog showing all the software available for download at the CICS TS v3.2 Infocenter download site. The section CICS TS v3.2 primary information is selected.
    Click the check box to select the documentation to download. The majority of the CICS TS v3.2 documentation, including the PDF files, is contained in the file "CICS TS v3.2 primary information". The size of this file is around 450 Mb.
  6. Click Install. The selected software is downloaded and installed in the CICS Explorer.
Results
When all the software is downloaded successfully and the necessary files installed into the product, you are prompted to restart the CICS Explorer. Click Yes when asked to exit and restart the Workbench for the changes to take effect. When the CICS Explorer restarts, the CICS Infocenter topics are displayed in the Help Contents view, and any search will identify results in the CICS Infocenter topics as well as the CICS Explorer help topics.