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.
- Click Help > Software Updates on
the menu bar.
- Click the Available Software tab.
- Click the Add Site button.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.