CICS Explorer

IBM CICS Explorer - New Face of CICS. Integration point for CICS tooling with rich CICS views, data, methods.

Looking for new ways to accelerate the transfer of knowledge, skills, and best practice to the next generation of technical staff/experts? Need to maintain productivity and protect service-levels? CICS Explorer and System z lead the way to platform simplification.

• Common, intuitive, Eclipse-based environment for architects, developers, administrators, system programmers, and operators
• Task-oriented views provide integrated access to broad range of data and control capabilities
• Powerful, context-sensitive resource editors
• CICS Explorer V1.0.1 now provides an intuitive and secure way to view and edit z/OS datasets and zFS files, submit JCL, and view output and job logs
• Integration point for CICS TS, CICS Tools, CICS TG, PD Tools, and Rational Tools
• Extensible by ISVs, SIs, and customers using our Software Development Kit

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• Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Lightweight, powerful, extensible framework. Small disk footprint starts in seconds.

• Connection management: Manage and share secure connections to CICS TS, tools and z/OS services with from a single panel

• CICS operations and definitions Define, install, copy and paste, and manipulate all CICS resource definitions

• Repository choice Flexible deployment with support for CICSPlex SM repository and CICS System Definition (CSD) files

• z/OS perspective An intuitive and secure way to view and edit z/OS datasets and zFS files, submit JCL, and view output and job logs

• Event binding editor Create and deploy CICS application and system events

• Event search Locate event bindings when changing related applications

• ATOM feed wizard Quickly define and deploy ATOM feeds

• SIT view View CICS system initialization parameters

• Transaction tracking Follow complex CICS transactions as they flow through the CICSplex and quickly solve those tricky hung task problems

• Java SDK Develop and deploy CICS java programs with the new Software Development Toolkit for CICS Explorer

• Query management: Wide range of standard queries plus rich query editor so you can easily modify these or create your own

• Dynamic resource relationships: See both uses and where used relationships for deployed CICS resources. For example, right-click a file to see all of the programs that use it (requires CICS IA licence)

• Point-and-click navigation: Much easier to follow a sequence of resource relationships

• Data filtering: Helps to reduce the volume of data displayed, so that you can identify the required relationships more easily

• Dynamic perspectives: Resize, reorder, or sort columns. Move, tab, or resize views. See CICS your way!

• Smart resource editors: Tabbed structure with radio buttons, combos, radios, and other advanced controls to simplify creation or editing of complex CICS resources, with no need to learn "magic values".

• Editor validation: Keystroke client validation makes the CICS Explorer more responsive

• Powerful online help: Browse, search, and print documentation with context-sensitive help and text search capability. The help is displayed in a Help view in the workbench, in a separate Help Contents window, or in an external browser window.

CICS Explorer V1.1.1

Operating System	Software	Hardware
Linux/Windows	Windows: Microsoft Windows XP Professional 32-bit Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit Windows Editions: XP: Professional Vista: Business or Enterprise 7: Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate Server 2008: Standard, Web, Enterprise or DataCenter Linux: Red Hat Linux v5 & v6, 32-bit or 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 & 11, 32-bit or 64-bit Eclipse 3.6.2 requires a compatible 32-bit browser on your system. Mozilla 1.4 GTK2 - 1.7.x GTK2, XULRunner 1.8.x - 3.6.x, or WebKitGTK+ 1.2.x. Note: Service Packs are not listed unless they are known to resolve a specific problem. If you are installing the CICS Explorer SDK, the following versions of software are required: Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.6 or higher. Eclipse platform version 3.6.2 You will also need any required 32-bit native libraries if you are running a 64-bit system.	CPU – Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent RAM – 768MB in addition to Operating System requirements Hard disk – 500MB available space
z/OS	CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 4 Release 2. The following prerequisite PTFs must be installed on the following versions of CICS®: CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® Version 4 release 1. CICS TS V4 APAR PK90112 is required for all new functions and views that interact with the CICS CSD file. CICS TS V4 APAR PK94205 is required to use the HTTP EP adapter functions. CICS TS V4 APAR PM08661 is required to use the new JVM server Disable actions: PHASEOUT, PURGE, FORCEPURGE, and KILL. li>CICSPlex SM APAR PM15214 is required for the new SIT support. CICS TS V4 APAR PM15583 is required for the new SIT support. CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3 release 2: PTF UK38402 PTF UK27327 PTF UK43915 CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3 release 1: PTF UK27353 PTF UK43910	CICS Explorer runs on any hardware configuration supported by the licensed programs specified below.CICS Explorer runs on any hardware configuration supported by the specified licensed programs. For CICS TS V4.2, the minimum specification of zSeries server required to run z/OS Version 1 Release 11 operating system

CICS Explorer V1.1

Operating System	Software	Hardware
Linux/Windows	Windows: Microsoft Windows XP Professional 32-bit Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit Windows Editions: XP: Professional Vista: Business or Enterprise 7: Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate Server 2008: Standard, Web, Enterprise or DataCenter Linux: Red Hat Linux v5 & v6, 32-bit or 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 & 11, 32-bit or 64-bit Note: Service Packs are not listed unless they are known to resolve a specific problem. If you are installing the CICS Explorer SDK, the following versions of software are required: Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.6 or higher. Eclipse platform version 3.6.2 Apache FTP	CPU – Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent RAM – 768MB in addition to Operating System requirements Hard disk – 500MB available space
z/OS	CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 4 Release 2. The following prerequisite PTFs must be installed on the following versions of CICS®: CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® Version 4 release 1. CICS TS V4 APAR PK90112 is required for all new functions and views that interact with the CICS CSD file. CICS TS V4 APAR PK94205 is required to use the HTTP EP adapter functions. CICS TS V4 APAR PM08661 is required to use the new JVM server Disable actions: PHASEOUT, PURGE, FORCEPURGE, and KILL. li>CICSPlex SM APAR PM15214 is required for the new SIT support. CICS TS V4 APAR PM15583 is required for the new SIT support. CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3 release 2: PTF UK38402 PTF UK27327 PTF UK43915 CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3 release 1: PTF UK27353 PTF UK43910	CICS Explorer runs on any hardware configuration supported by the licensed programs specified below.CICS Explorer runs on any hardware configuration supported by the specified licensed programs. For CICS TS V4.2, the minimum specification of zSeries server required to run z/OS Version 1 Release 11 operating system

CICS Explorer V1.0

Operating System	Software	Hardware
Linux/WIndows	Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2008 32-bit Red Hat Linux V5 32-bit If you are installing the CICS Explorer SDK, the following versions of software are required: Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.6 or higher. Eclipse platform version 3.4.2 with the Eclipse RSE FTP v.3.0.3 plug-ins.	CPU - Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent. RAM - 768 MB in addition to the operating system requirements. Hard disk - 500 MB available space.
z/OS	The following prerequisite PTFs must be installed on the following versions of CICS®: CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® Version 4 release 1 CICS TS V4 APAR PK90112 is required for all new functions and views that interact with the CICS CSD file. CICS TS V4 APAR PK94205 is required to use the HTTP EP adapter functions. CICS TS V4 APAR PM08661 is required to use the new JVM server Disable actions: PHASEOUT, PURGE, FORCEPURGE, and KILL. CICSPlex SM APAR PM15214 is required for the new SIT support. CICS TS V4 APAR PM15583 is required for the new SIT support. CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3 release 2 PTF UK38402 PTF UK27327 PTF UK43915 CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 3 release 1: PTF UK27353 PTF UK43910	CICS Explorer runs on any hardware configuration supported by the licensed programs specified below.CICS Explorer runs on any hardware configuration supported by the specified licensed programs.