Making the CICS TS Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting V2.0 target platform available

Before you can develop Dynamic Scripting applications, you must make the CICS® TS Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting V2.0 target platform available to your dynamic scripting applications.

Before you begin

Before you can make the target platform available, the following conditions must be satisfied:
  • You have the correct versions of software and service installed. For more information, see Prerequisites.
  • Your IBM® CICS SDK for Java™ is at the latest service level.
  • The IBM CICS SDK for Java is started.

About this task

The target platform definition is supplied with the IBM CICS SDK for Java, but must be made available for developing your dynamic scripting applications. A target platform consists of a set of plug-ins and environment settings that are used to satisfy dependencies that are required in your application development. CICS provides a run time platform template that contains all the plug-ins for each level of CICS for which you can build applications. The name of the CICS TS Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting V2.0 target platform is "CICS TS V5.6 with Java EE and Liberty".

Procedure

  1. In the IBM CICS SDK for Java, click Window > Preferences from the workbench menu bar to open the Preferences dialog. Expand Plug-in Development and click Target Platform.
    The Target Platform pane shows the target definitions that exist in your Eclipse environment. If CICS TS V5.6 with Java EE and Liberty is in the list, the target platform is already available to your applications, so click Cancel, ignore the following steps in this procedure, and go straight to What to do next later in this topic.
  2. Click Add to add a new target definition.
    The New Target wizard opens.
  3. In the Target Definition window, click Template, from the Template list, select CICS TS V5.6 with Java EE and Liberty, then click Next.
  4. In the Target Content window, ensure that CICS TS V5.6 with Java EE and Liberty is displayed in the Name field, and on the Locations tab, ensure that ${explorer_sdk_web_php}/targets/php56 is displayed in the list of locations.
  5. Check the other values that are displayed on the tabs in the Target Content window and update them with site-specific values if required. For more information, see the IBM CICS SDK for Java help topic Edit Target Wizard.
  6. Click Finish.
  7. Select CICS TS V5.6 with Java EE and Liberty from the Target definitions list, then click OK.

Results

The "CICS TS V5.6 with Java EE and Liberty" target platform is available to your dynamic scripting applications.

What to do next

Optionally, configure security, and verify that the installation is successful.