Creating a CICS bundle project

A CICS® bundle is a collection of resources, artifacts, references, and a manifest file that you can deploy into a CICS region to represent all or part of an application.

About this task

You can create a CICS bundle project using the supplied wizard. A bundle project can include resources that are dynamically created when the bundle is deployed in CICS. The bundle can also contain dependencies, such as system resources for the application. CICS does not dynamically create these system resources but can check that they are present in the CICS region.

Procedure

On the Eclipse menu bar click File > New > Other to open the New Project wizard.
Expand the CICS Resources folder and click CICS Bundle Project.
In the Project name field, enter a name for the project.
Click Use default location to use the default file location to create the bundle. You can also deselect this option and specify another file location.
In the Bundle properties area, specify an ID and version number. The version number default value is 1.0.0, and the default ID is the same as the project name.
Click Finish to create the project in the Project Explorer.

Results

The bundle project is created. The project has a META-INF folder, which contains the cics.xml manifest file.

What to do next

Add dependencies and resources to the bundle project for your application. You can do these actions by using the CICS Bundle manifest editor.

Note: When you have created and deployed your bundle using CICS Explorer®, you must ensure proper management of the bundle source. The bundle cannot be reconstructed from the exported data in zFS, and a failure of your workstation might cause the data to be lost. Ensure that your bundle project is checked into a source code management system. When you use a source code management system that integrates with Eclipse, you can check projects in and out while you are working in the CICS Explorer.