The new and enhanced capabilities available in IBM® CICS Explorer® Version 5.2 are described.
New Function | Description |
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CICS Explorer on OS X operating system | CICS Explorer Version 5.2.0.2 and later is available for the OS X Yosemite (10.10) operating system. |
Support for CICSPlex® SM workload management | CICS Explorer presents a new way of managing your CICSPlex SM workloads. There is no change to the way the CICSPlex SM workload management operates, but by using CICS Explorer you can get a simplified and consolidated view of the CICSPlex SM elements that control where, and how, the work is distributed in a workload. CICS Explorer introduces
the term Routing rule. Routing rules take two forms:
default and specific:
For more information, see Managing workloads. |
Define FILE, JVMSERVER, PIPELINE, TCPIPSERVICE and WEBSERVICE resources in a CICS® Bundle project | In addition to PROGRAM, TRANSACTION, URIMAP and LIBRARY resources, you can now dynamically generate FILE, JVMSERVER, PIPELINE, TCPIPSERVICE, and WEBSERVICE resources through a CICS bundle. When you manage resources and their lifecycles through bundles, you can deploy, move, or deprovision an application without having to set up or discard resources manually each time. For JVM servers that are packaged in CICS bundles, the JVM profiles are packaged with the resource definitions in the CICS bundles. You can therefore install the JVM server in any CICS region without needing to set up a JVM profile in the local JVM profile directory for the CICS region. For pipelines that are packaged in CICS bundles, the pipeline configuration files are also packaged with the resource definitions in the CICS bundles, so that you do not need to manage these files separately. For web services that are packaged in CICS bundles, you can import and package the web service binding file and the WSDL document or WSDL archive file in the bundle. You can also create a PROGRAM resource definition for the web service and include it in the bundle. To support the web service, you can use a WEBSERVICE definition packaged in a CICS bundle to generate a URIMAP definition in a separate bundle. You can also create an alias transaction for the URI map, and an optional URIMAP definition for WSDL discovery. For more information, see Adding resources to a CICS bundle project. |
Declare URIMAP resources as application entry points | URIMAP resources can now be declared as application entry points for applications deployed on platforms, in addition to PROGRAM resources. Application entry points control users' access to the different versions of the application, and are used to create an application context for tasks and produce application context data. For more information, see Defining application entry points. |
View details of, and work with, an application installed on a platform | To see more details about an installed application version, in the Cloud Explorer view or the Applications view, double-click the name of the application to open it in the new online application editor. Alternatively, right-click the name of the application and select Open. The Overview tab in the editor shows key information about the application, including the CICS bundles in the application and the application entry points. You can make available or unavailable, enable, disable, or discard the application on the Overview tab. You can perform the disable and discard operations in a single step by selecting the Disable and discard option from the Disable button. To find the private resources that have been installed in your CICS regions for the application, select the Private Resources tab in the editor. You can view the private resources and application entry points for the application by resource type, and filter them by the CICS region where they are installed, or by the CICS bundle where they are defined. You can also view the DD names that z/OS® has generated for the LIBRARY concatenation of data sets for private LIBRARY resources. For more information, see The online application editor. |
Manage multiple versions of applications installed on a platform | You can use the CICS Cloud perspective to view, update, and remove all the versions of an application that are deployed on a platform. The Cloud Explorer view shows the status of the application versions, including whether they are available or unavailable to users through their application entry points. The Bundles view shows the status of individual CICS bundles, including whether any application entry points that they define are available or unavailable to users. You can make available or unavailable, enable or disable, and install or discard an installed application version in the Cloud Explorer view. You can make available or unavailable, enable, or disable an installed application version in the online application editor for installed applications. |
Changed Function | Description |
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Attribute filters in the Customize Columns dialog | When you use the Customize Columns dialog to select which attributes to display as columns in a resource view, you can now filter the attribute names to find the required attributes. For more information, see Adding or removing columns in a view. |
Additional content in the CICSplex Explorer view | The CICSplex Explorer view is enhanced to show the default routers and targets, and the routing rules and transaction groups in a workload. For more information, see CICSplex Explorer view |
Further support for CICS policies | CICS Explorer has been updated to support the new CICS policy rule types and rule items that are implemented in CICS TS Version 5.2. See Policy rule types. |
View Type | Description |
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General views | One new general view has been added in this
version:
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Operation views | Five new Operation views have been added
in this version:
One view has been updated in this version:
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Workload Management views | One new Workload Management (WLM) view has
been added in this version:
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