Introduction

CICS® Configuration Manager provides a single point of control for editing, reporting, and migrating CICS resource definitions across an enterprise.

The main components of CICS Configuration Manager are the server, which is a CICS application that can read from and write to CICS system definition (CSD) files and CICSPlex® SM contexts, and the supplied clients: an interactive ISPF dialog interface and a batch command interface. The clients communicate with the server by exchanging SOAP messages over an HTTP network. For a more detailed description of these and other components of CICS Configuration Manager, see Components.

As an alternative to using the supplied clients, you can use CICS Explorer® with the CICS Configuration Manager plug-in, or you can develop your own clients. CICS Explorer with the CICS Configuration Manager plug-in provides an Eclipse-based graphical user interface to many of the CICS Configuration Manager functions available in the supplied ISPF user interface. CICS Explorer also provides an integrated interface to various CICS functions and other CICS tools. For more information about CICS Explorer and the CICS Configuration Manager plug-in, see www.ibm.com/cics/explorer/.

Figure 1. Overview of CICS Configuration Manager main components

You can use CICS Configuration Manager to perform the following tasks:


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