These tasks illustrate how you can set up and use CICS® Deployment Assistant.
Configuring a CICS DA system connection
CICS Deployment
Assistant uses several types of connections to access the CICS DA host component: an FTP
connection, CMCI or CICSPlex® SM
data interface connections, and HTTP connections. When you configure
the CICS DA system connection,
you provide details about the connection, credentials, type of FTP
connection (implicit or explicit), and other related details.
Creating a CICSplex
You can create a CICSplex with CICS DA. When the CICSplex is created you can
edit the information in the CICSplex editor.
Creating a CICSplex management facility
A CICSplex management facility is a pair of linked CICS regions: A CMAS and a Web
User Interface (WUI) server. CICSPlex SM
uses the management facility to manage your CICS systems. You can use CICS DA to create a management facility from
templates that are supplied with the product. The templates are tailored
for your organization during the installation of the CICS DA server.
Working with the system model
The system information and configuration data that is found
by CICS DA during the discovery
process. The information is loaded in the CICS DA client, and can be viewed in the DA
Explorer view. This collection of system information and configuration
data is known as the model. You can view the individual elements in
the model, and open them in an editor to see more details or to perform
actions against them.
Working with CICS regions
You can use CICS DA
to perform a number of tasks against CICS regions.
This section describes the tasks you can perform against CICS regions: