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Installing and initializing the CICS Transaction Server information center

The CICS® Transaction Server information center for Windows is provided on the IBM® Publications Center. This package contains all the Eclipse code and CICS documentation that is required to run an information center on a workstation or a server.

To Download the CICS Transaction Server information center for Windows:

  1. Go to the IBM® publications center website: http://www.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss.
    Note: There is a known problem with accessing this site using Firefox. The workaround is to use a different browser.
  2. Select your country, region, or language from the drop-down menu, and click Go.
  3. On the next page, select Search for publications.
  4. On the Quick Publications Center search page, enter SK4T-2666 in the Publication number field, and click Go.
  5. Download the information center package.
  6. Extract the package and follow the instructions in the readme file to install the information center.

After you have installed the information center, follow the instructions provided in the information center for obtaining the latest updates.

To enable Language Sensitive Help for EXEC CICS statements, go to where you installed the information center and initialize the information center by running IC_start.bat - this routine initializes the information center on port 9999 (default). The information center must be initialized using a known port to ensure that the help information can be found by Language Sensitive Help. If port 9999 is not available, you can edit the IC_start.bat batch file to change the port number and specify the new port number in the help preferences. To change the port in the preferences, go to Window>Preferences, Help>EXEC Statements and enter the new port number you specified in the batch file. To open the CICS Information Center, you can either run help_cd_start.bat or, use your browser to link to http://127.0.0.1:9999/help/index.jsp after initializing the information center by running IC_start.bat.
Note: You only need to initialize the CICS Information Center for the Language Sensitive helps to work. You do not need to open the information center.

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