The CICS Explorer can very easily be used as a periscope to see what is going on in your CICS System. You probably currently look at running tasks in the system by using CEMT INQUIRE TASK or by using a monitor product, but did you know that the CICS Explorer provides as nice, easy, and graphical way to do this as well? Let me show you how. Once you've established a connection to the host system, you can use the Operations > Tasks view to see the running tasks in your CICS regions. By default, the following columns are displayed:... [More]

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  The CICS Explorer is a great tool for a systems programmer to manage their CICS resources. Whenever I am working on a CICS test system to recreate a problem, I find myself going to the Explorer to create and install different resources rather than using CEDA or CEMT through a 3270 green screen.   One function in particular that I want to highlight is the capability the Explorer provides for viewing and editing CSD groups. The CICS Explorer allows you to very easily look at all of the group definitions in a particular CICS region. To... [More]

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  MQ Explorer now has its own update site! This makes it easier than ever to install MQ Explorer into your Eclipse environment - simply drag the install icon below onto your Eclipse toolbar: Drag to Eclipse: That will bring up a dialog to confirm the selection of features. Then simply follow the usual steps to install and restart, and then you can open the MQ Explorer perspective. The update site includes the latest available update for V7.5, which is 7.5.0.2 at the time of writing. You will then be able to use the Eclipse "Check for... [More]

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  One of the problems that administrators hear from their users is that either a CICS Transaction Gateway (CICS TG) is not available, or the CICS server is returning errors. Having a quick way to confirm or deny these problems can be of great benefit and fortunately the CICS TG plug-in for the CICS Explorer provides such functionality.   From the Gateways view you can right click on any of the Gateway daemons and from the menu select 'Test Gateway Connection'.     This will then attempt to connect to the Gateway... [More]

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  As you're probably aware, the IBM WebSphere MQ product has an administration GUI called MQ Explorer . This is included with the Server installation of the product on Windows and Linux (x86 & x86_64) platforms, and is also available separately via in SupportPac MS0T . What you may not be aware of is that you can also install MQ Explorer into other Eclipse-based products.   Firstly, it's best to use the "latest and greatest" version of MQ Explorer, which is V7.5.0.1 at the time of writing. You can still connect... [More]

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  by Dave Nice, Steve Bolton, and Nick Bishop - IBM CICS Explorer Development This article explains how to provide a web-based installation of CICS Explorer. This is useful for system administrators who want to deploy the software to multiple desktops and provide automatic updates. The solution uses Java™ Web Start, which is an industry standard solution for deployment of Java applications from the web (and as such is not part of CICS Explorer or its support infrastructure). If you have any problems implementing it consult Java... [More]

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IMS Enterprise Suite Explorer was made generally available late last year. It's very cool, and there is a neat neat video that shows the IMS team talking out quite how cool it is. There's another video that is more a tutorial. Why am I telling you this? If you watched the videos, or if you are looking at the screen shot below, you'll notice that the the IMS Explorer is based on the Eclipse framework, and it includes a perspective called z/OS. This lets you connect to z/OS and do stuff such as list and edit data sets, look at jobs and their... [More]

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I have to admit that I put off installing the CICS Explorer for a long time because I was so busy. I finally took the time to install the CICS Explorer last year and was surprised at how quickly I was using it. I really like it and I think you will too. If you haven't already started using the CICS Explorer, I hope this post encourages you to start soon. See my other blog post " Getting the latest CICS Explorer version " for details on downloading or updating your CICS Explorer. What is the CICS Explorer? As you probably already... [More]

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Have you been using the CICS Explorer but want to start using the newest functionality that's available or are you just installing CICS Explorer for the first time. In either case, I hope you'll find this blog helpful! See my other blog post " Start using the CICS Explorer today! " to learn why I think you'll like using the CICS Explorer. How to get the latest version of CICS Explorer The CICS Explorer isn't shipped with CICS TS V4 or available to order as a separate component of CICS TS V3. The CICS Explorer is only available from... [More]

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