You can download and install a copy of the CICS® Information Center into your CICS Explorer™, so that all, or some
of, the documentation is local and can be searched and viewed easily
from within the CICS Explorer.
Before you begin
The CICS Information
Center is available as an Eclipse software update site which means
that you can install it in the CICS
Explorer. However in its entirety it is very large, so you might
consider downloading only some of the topics. You can select the topics
to download during the software update process.
The update site
for CICS TS version 4.1 is
already predefined in CICS Explorer but must be enabled before it
can be accessed. To enable the update site click
Help >
Software Updates on the menu bar. In the Software Updates
and Add-ons dialog, click the
Available Software tab,
then click
Manage Sites. Select the check box
next to
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cicsts/4.1/ and
click
OK to enable the update site, then continue
from step 5 in the procedure below.
Note: You can only have one version
of the CICS TS Information
Center installed at a time. If you want to change the installed version
of the Information center for a different version, you must uninstall
the current version first. Select it in the Installed Software page
and click Uninstall.
To download
another version of the CICS Information Center, follow the procedure
below:
Procedure
- Click Help > Software Updates on
the menu bar.
- Click Available Software.
- Click Add Site.
- In the Add Site dialog, specify
the location of the CICS Information
Center update site and click OK. The update
site for CICS TS version 3.2
is located at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cicsts/3.2/
- The update site is added to the list of available software.
The CICS Explorer interrogates
the update site and displays a list of the software available for
download as shown in this screen capture of the CICS TS v4.1 update site. Click the check box to select the documentation to download.
Most the CICS TS documentation,
including the PDF files, is contained in the file CICS TS Vx.x primary information.
- Click Install. The selected software
is downloaded and installed in the CICS Explorer.
Results
When all the software is downloaded successfully and the necessary
files installed into the product, you are prompted to restart the CICS Explorer. Click
Yes when
asked to exit and restart the Workbench for the changes to take effect.
When the CICS Explorer restarts,
the CICS Information Center
topics are displayed in the Help Contents view, and any search identifies
results in the CICS Information
Center topics as well as the CICS
Explorer help topics.