The IBM CICS Explorer is a new graphical systems management tooling framework for CICS.
Download Description
The unsupported files previously provided by this SupportPac page have been withdrawn. Supported versions of the CICS Explorer, for use with CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) V3 and V4.1, are now available from the CICS Explorer home page.
The latest version of the CICS Explorer contains many new enhancements in support of the new features of CICS TS V4.1. More details of these features can be found in the CICS TS V4.1 product announcement.
The IBM CICS Explorer The IBM CICS Explorer is a new graphical tooling interface for CICS, providing significantly enhanced levels of usability and integration. The CICS Explorer enables you to create customizable task-oriented views. It is intended to act as the tooling integration point for the CICS runtime and to provide a rich set of CICS views, data, methods, and features that are easily extensible by IBM, vendors, and clients.
The CICS Explorer is available for use with both Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, and connects to CICS TS V3 and CICS TS V4.1.
Support from IBM CICS tools Selected IBM CICS tools complement and enrich the base data and tasks provided by the CICS Explorer with their own views, tasks, and data to support disciplines. These disciplines include things such as CICS performance analysis, application configuration, application structure, and inter-dependency analysis. CICS tools support the CICS Explorer in the form of plug-ins and are available for the following CICS tools:
An example of the CICS Explorer in use is shown below: Java™ Support Each version of the CICS Explorer comes with an appropriate version of the IBM Java Runtime Environment:
IBM 32-bit Runtime Environment for Windows, Java 2 Technology Edition, V5
IBM 32-bit Runtime Environment for Linux on Intel architecture, Java 2 Technology Edition, V5
CICS Explorer SDK A Software Development Kit (SDK) SupportPac is available for the CICS Explorer. This kit allows you to build your own plug-ins for the CICS Explorer to satisfy your own systems management and monitoring needs. You can download the CICS Explorer SDK from the CICS Explorer home page.
CICS Explorer Community and Forum To find out more about the CICS Explorer and the community built around it, visit the following Web pages:
CICS Explorer Feedback IBM would like to hear your views about the CICS Explorer and what you would like to see it deliver in future versions. To tell IBM about yourself and let IBM know what you think, contact the CICS Explorer team by e-mail.
Possible Uses Enables broadly skilled technical staff to develop and manage CICS system configurations effectively.
Skill Level Required Some knowledge of CICS Systems Administration is required.
Prerequisites
Requirements for the CICS Explorer and CICS tools plug-ins for the CICS Explorer include:
CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V41, or
CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.2 with PTF UK38402 for APAR PK69381 and UK27327 for PK48834, or
CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.1 with PTF UK27353 for APAR PK48855
To use the plug-ins for the CICS Explorer, the appropriate CICS tool is also required:
The download packages associated with this page have been withdrawn. IBM recommends that you use the General Availability version of the CICS Explorer, available from the CICS Explorer home page.
The
CICS Explorer Forum provides a way of posting queries and raising problems related to the CICS Explorer. The forum can also be used to review information posted by other forum users. Before posting a query, you are encouraged to look through these previous postings.
Other CICS SupportPacs
To view the complete portfolio of CICS SupportPacs, go to the
CICS SupportPacs Home Page
Cross Reference information
Segment
Product
Component
Platform
Version
Edition
Host Transaction Processing
CICS Configuration Manager
Capability
z/OS
2.1, 1.2
Host Transaction Processing
CICS Interdependency Analyzer
Capability
z/OS
2.2, 3.1
Host Transaction Processing
CICS Performance Analyzer
SupportPac
z/OS
3.1, 2.1
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