Creating a CICS Bundle project

A CICS® Bundle project is the unit of deployment for your application in CICS. A bundle contains a set of application resources that CICS can dynamically create when the bundle is deployed. The bundle can also list the prerequisite system resources for the application. CICS does not dynamically create these system resources but can check that they are present in the CICS region. This separation of resources means that you can install the same application into multiple CICS regions without having to repackage or redeploy the bundle. The bundle is deployed to zFS.

About this task

This task creates a new CICS bundle project.

Procedure

  1. On the Eclipse menu bar click File > New > Other to open the New Project wizard.
  2. Expand the CICS Resources folder and click CICS Bundle project.
  3. In the Project Name field, enter a name for the project and click Finish.

Results

The new bundle project is created. The bundle project has a META-INF folder, which contains the cics.xml manifest file. Before you can deploy the BUNDLE you must edit the bundle and add details of the CICS plug-ins that are included in the BUNDLE. See the related topics for more information.
Note: When you have created and deployed your bundle using the CICS Explorer, you should ensure proper management of the bundle source. The bundle cannot be reconstructed from the exported data in zFS, and a failure of your workstation would cause the data to be lost. You can use the Export function of CICS Explorer to export the bundle and check it in to a source code management system.