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:
- 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.
- Select your country, region, or language from the drop-down menu,
and click Go.
- On the next page, select Search for publications.
- On the Quick Publications Center search page, enter SK4T-2666 in
the Publication number field, and click Go.
- Download the information center package.
- 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.