Basic tutorial
Before you can work with CICS® Configuration Manager (CICS CM) configurations and resources, you must connect to your CICS systems. You can then locate resources and edit them.
- The CM perspective
The CICS CM plug-in consists of the CM perspective and views. - Configuring a CICS CM system connection
Before you can view any information, you must establish a connection between CICS CM plug-in and your CICS systems by providing details about the system connection, its location, and its authentication requirements. - Setting Configuration Manager preferences
You can use the CICS Configuration Manager Preference pages to configure the preferences for working with Configuration Manager. You can use the pages to configure security controls, change package JCL, Deployment Analysis preference, Retrieval Limit preference, and other general options. - Setting the Configuration Manager system options
You can define the security controls and other Configuration Manager system options in the CM plug-in. - Creating a configuration file
You use the New Configuration wizard to create a CM configuration. In the wizard, you identify the CSD file or the CICSPlex SM context that contains the resource definitions, and then create the configuration. You can then use the Configuration editor to edit the new, or an existing configuration. - Editing a configuration file
You edit a CM configuration file with the configuration editor. You can update all the details that are associated with a configuration, except for the configuration name. - Working with a resource
When you have established a connection between CICS CM plug-in and your CICS system, you can view the groups and resources defined in a configuration and make changes to the resources using the editor. - Searching for a resource
You can search for CICS resources defined in CICS CM in a number of ways. - Working with migration schemes
A migration scheme defines one or more migration paths. Each migration path refers to a pair of CICS configurations: A source CICS configuration and a target CICS configuration. The source CICS configuration identifies where you want to migrate from; the target CICS configuration identifies where you want to migrate to. - Working with change packages
A change package can identify a set of resource definitions that you want to process together, or it can contain a set of commands that you want to process together, or both. - Deployment analysis of resource definitions
Deployment analysis is the analysis of resource definitions that CICS has installed in active CICS regions, resource definitions that CICS stores in a resource definition repository (CICS System Definition file or CICSPlex® SM Data Repository), or comparisons from a mixture of these sources. - Searching for a group
Using the Configuration view you can search for groups defined in CICS CM. - Searching for history
You can search for the history of a Configuration or Group. - Defining a search
You can refine or filter a search in several ways using the Search Definitions window. - Performing actions against a resource
You can perform actions against a CICSPlex SM or CICS resource. The actions that you can perform depend on the resource selected. - Comparing resources
You can compare two groups, lists, or definitions, by using the compare function. You can also compare resources that are shown in the history view.
Parent topic: CICS CM plug-in User Guide