CICS® Deployment
Assistant (CICS DA) is a member
of the CICS tools family of
products. CICS DA consists
of two components: The CICS DA
host component, which is installed in your host system by using the
SMP/E RECEIVE, APPLY, and ACCEPT commands, and the CICS DA plug-in, which is an Eclipse plug-in
that operates inside the IBM® CICS Explorer®.
With CICS DA you can discover,
model, visualize, and deploy new and existing CICS regions in a single sysplex. You do this
by using automation and policy-driven advice, and so improving productivity,
and reducing complexity, time to effectiveness, and risk.
Using CICS DA you can run
the following tasks:
- Discover and visualize CICSplexes and CICS regions in a single sysplex.
- Discover connectivity relationships and major subsystem dependencies.
- Start and stop CICS regions.
- View held and running z/OS® jobs
and the system log.
- Clone existing CICS regions
by creating and submitting JCL directly from CICS Explorer.
- Add an existing CICS region
to a CICSplex.
- Create a CICSplex management facility.
Cheat Sheets are also included to assist with CICS version-to-version upgrades.
- Next steps:
- If you are new to the Eclipse interface, you can go to the Basic tutorial topic in the CICS Explorer User Guide, to learn how to use
perspectives and views. Alternatively, you can use the Search field
to find specific information in this help.
- If you are familiar with the Eclipse interface, you can go to
the CICS DA basic tutorial section
in this user guide to learn how to use the CICS DA plug-in.
- For further help on Eclipse, see the Eclipse
Workbench User Guide.