Troubleshooting deployment issues

To automate build and deployment of CICS® bundles and cloud-enabled CICS applications, the two tools you might be using are the DFHDPLOY utility and the CICS build toolkit.

The DFHDPLOY utility provides an interface that you can use to deploy, undeploy, and set the state of CICS bundles and cloud-enabled CICS applications. Typical problems that might occur to DFHDPLOY include DFHDPLOY command timeout, a DFHDPLOY job running out of memory, and so on. For diagnosis of errors that occur when DFHDPLOY runs, the DFHDPLOY log and trace are important sources of information that you can use to determine the cause of the error.

The CICS build toolkit is a command line interface for build automation of CICS projects, including CICS bundles, CICS applications, CICS application bindings, and CICS platforms. But it supports only Java 8. So using a Java version that is not supported by the CICS build toolkit is a typical cause of trouble. It is recommended to use more recent Java versions.