Deploying a CICS bundle project from CICS Explorer
You can deploy an application as a CICS® bundle project from CICS Explorer® and use a BUNDLE resource to create resources dynamically for you. The BUNDLE resource represents the application, so you can also manage its availability in CICS by enabling and disabling the BUNDLE resource.
About this task
A bundle project is a collection of CICS resources, artifacts, references, and a manifest that you can deploy into a CICS region to represent all or part of an application. The manifest is a file that describes the contents of the bundle, including any prerequisite system resources for the application. CICS does not dynamically create these system resources but can check that they are present in the CICS region. This separation of resources means that you can install the same application into multiple CICS regions without repackaging or redeploying the bundle.
When you have created a CICS bundle project in CICS Explorer, you must export it to a CICS region. You can either export the bundle project as a .zip file to the local file system, transfer the archive file to z/OS® UNIX, and extract it into a directory, or you can export the project directly to z/OS UNIX. You must also define and enable a BUNDLE resource for the bundle project. CICS will then create the bundle project application resources dynamically for you.