Overview
CICS Transaction Server for z/OS provides scalable, general-purpose, transaction processing solutions for high-volume updates to shared data. Businesses have used CICS to differentiate themselves by creating, extending, and evolving their critical applications.
You can use steps from the CICS TS plug-in for DevOps Deploy, in combination with other plug-ins,to automate the deployment and un-deployment of CICS applications.
In a wider context, the CICS TS plug-in can be used in conjunction with other CICS tooling to automate the build and deployment of CICS artifacts as part of a continuous delivery environment.
Features
The plug-in includes steps to:
- Install CSD resources, groups, and lists
- Install BAS resources, resource descriptions, and groups
- Discard resources
- Enable and disable resources
- Open and close resources
- New copy and phase in resources
- Make resources available and unavailable
- Check the available, enable,and open status of resources
- Scan pipelines
- Deploy and undeploy a bundle
- Deploy and undeploy an application
- Check the status of an application
- Enable and disable an application
- Make an application available and unavailable
Compatibility
The CICS TS plug-in is supported to run against any of the following CICS editions:
- IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.4, V5.5, V5.6, V6.1, 6.2, 6.3
- IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Developer Trial V5.4, V5.5, V5.6, V6.1, 6.2, 6.3
- IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Value Unit Edition V5.4, V5.5, V5.6, V6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Additionally, you must also have configured a CICS management client interface (CMCI) port, as described in topic Setting up access for CICS Explorer in the IBM Knowledge Center.
This plug-in requires DevOps Deploy 6.2.5 or later, and the zOS Utility 10 plug-in or later. Using this plug-in requires the DevOps Deploy agent to be running with Java 8; for details of how to upgrade the version of Java used by the agent, see Changing or updating the JRE of agents.
Installation
No special steps are required for installation. See Installing plug-ins in DevOps Deploy.