What's new in version 5.1

Provides a simple way to keep up to date with new versions of CICS Explorer and add new tools and plug ins to your CICS Explorer environment. For more information, see Using the composite update site

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to manage your system connections in a new way. Using the Host Connections view you can manage all your system connections, and load or import connections from a shared, centrally located, file.

See Configuring a CICS system connection for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to perform a system dump. Snap Dump is now available in the list of actions when you right-click the CICS region in the Regions view.

See Performing actions against a resource for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to copy the attributes of an existing resource, and either create a new resource with the same attributes, or create a new version of the existing resource.

See Creating a new resource from an existing definition for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to connect to a CICS VSE system.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to connect to the z/OSMF product. Using the z/OSMF product you can view the output of active jobs, and cancel or delete jobs.

See Using the IBM z/OS Management facility for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to select resource data in a view and paste it into a spreadsheet, or save the data as a comma-separated values (CSV) file.

See Copying and pasting resource data to a spreadsheet for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to create a new file in a directory in your z/OS UNIX file system by using the CICS Explorer z/OS perspective.

See Creating a new z/OS UNIX file for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to export a file, or a folder containing one or more files, to a z/OS UNIX file system.

See Exporting a file or folder to a z/OS UNIX file system for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to create a new Partitioned Data Set (PDS), Partitioned Data Set Extended (PDSE or Library data set), or a Sequential data set, using the CICS Explorer z/OS perspective.

See Creating a new data set for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to define and package CICS applications for deployment.

See Creating a CICS Application project for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to define and package CICS platforms for deployment.

See Creating a CICS Platform project for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to define and package CICS policies for deployment.

See Creating a policy in a CICS Bundle project for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to query the policy rules that have been deployed within a given scope.

See Querying a policy for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides an editor to add and edit dependencies to the manifest file. When you install the BUNDLE resource, these dependencies are checked. Depending on the options that you select, the BUNDLE resource can fail to install if the dependencies are not met.

CICS bundle projects can now include PROGRAM, TRANSACTION, LIBRARY, and URIMAP resource definitions. When deployed and installed, the BUNDLE resource dynamically creates the PROGRAM, TRANSACTION, LIBRARY, and URIMAP resources for you. You can define the resources using wizards, and edit the attributes of the resource definitions using resource editors.

See Adding resources to a CICS bundle project and Editing resources defined in a CICS bundle project for more information.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to add a CICS bundle to an installed platform.

See Adding a CICS bundle to a platform.

CICS Explorer now provides the ability to remove a CICS bundle from an installed platform.

See Removing a CICS bundle from a platform.

Application and System events can now emit static data when you define a capture specification. When you define an information source for events you can now choose static data for a given item.

See Information Sources tab for more information.

System events now support the MESSAGE capture point, and you can define option filters for up to 10 message inserts. You can now capture and emit events when your system issues a DFHxxnnnn or EYUxxnnnn message.

See System events for more information.

Application events now support the WRITE OPERATOR capture point. You can now capture and emit events when your application program issues an EXEC CICS WRITE OPERATOR command.

See Application events for more information.

A new action is added to the CICS region context menu to perform a SSL rebuild. The action is available only for systems that are running CICS TS version 5.1 or later, and can be accessed by right-clicking the CICS region in the Regions view.

See Performing actions against a resource for more information.

Connections between CICS Explorer and CICS servers can now use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for increased security.

See note below

CICS Explorer now provides support for CICS TS Version 5.1 JCICS.

The field names in the Task view have been changed to be more meaningful.

The Active Workloads view has been renamed to the Workloads view.

The CICS Explorer SDK has been updated to support Java 7, which is required by CICS TS.

See the CICS Explorer SDK for further details.