Developing applications

Use this information to create your batch applications.

Before you can develop batch applications, you must follow the steps for installing and configuring the CICS® Modern Batch Feature Pack . See Installing the feature pack and Configuring Modern batch for CICS.

You can develop applications with Rational® Application Developer or the CICS Explorer® SDK.

If you use the CICS Explorer SDK to write your applications, you must import the following JARs from the feature pack then add them to the build path for the project:
  • batchframework.jar
  • pgcruntime.jar

To develop applications with Rational Application Developer it is not necessary to import any JARs as they are included in the WebSphere® Application Server libraries.

If you want to use the CICS supplied data streams, you must import:
  • com.ibm.cics.batch.jar
If you want to use the JCICS API, you must also import:
  • com.ibm.cics.server.jar
  • com.ibm.record.jar
Note: You must FTP the files in binary mode.

You can modify the properties of an existing batch application at any time. In the Enterprise Explorer view, right-click the batch project name and click Properties > Java Build Path. You can use this dialog box to tailor your development environment by adding JARs, variables, libraries, and class folders to the Java™ build path.
This screen capture shows the dialog box where you can specify the components and libraries you want to use for your batch project.