Reverting to a previous installation configuration

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As you install, upgrade, and uninstall software in CICS Explorer®, configuration snapshots are kept in a history. You can revert to a previous configuration to back out the results of an unsuccessful installation, upgrade, or uninstall. You can also revert CICS Explorer to a previous version. However, you must have access to an update site because when you upgrade the CICS Explorer product, previous versions are not saved.

Before you begin

If you used IBM® Installation Manager to install, upgrade, or uninstall software in CICS Explorer, you can revert to a previous version by using the rollback feature, and you do not need to use the following procedure.

Important: It is a limitation of Eclipse that before you can revert to a previous version of CICS Explorer you must have access to an update site that includes the required version. You can download the update site from the IBM Fix Centralwebsite.
To download the update site, use the following steps:
  1. For the Product Group field, select Other Software or WebSphere®, and for Product, select CICS Explorer. For the Installed Version and Platform fields, select All, then click Continue.
  2. Select Browse for fixes and click Continue.
  3. Select the update site at the level you want to revert to and click Continue.
  4. Download the update site to your workstation. Do not uncompress the file. CICS Explorer requires a compressed file.
  5. In CICS Explorer, add the update site by using Help > Software Updates on the workbench menu. For more information, see Adding a new software update site in IBM Explorer for z/OS documentation.
You can now revert CICS Explorer to the required level.

About this task

This example task shows you how to revert CICS Explorer to a previous configuration.

Procedure

  1. Click Help > Install New Software on the workbench menu.
    The Install window opens.
  2. Click the What is already installed link.
    The Installation Details window opens. The Installation History tab shows a list of the previous configurations.
  3. Select the configuration that you want to revert to. When you select a configuration, another pane shows the content in that configuration.
    Attention: The oldest entry in the list of previous configurations represents the initialCICS Explorer installation. This configuration has no contents. Do not revert to this configuration. If you do, CICS Explorer fails and must be completely reinstalled.
  4. Click Revert. The Revert Software Configuration confirmation dialog is displayed.
  5. Click Yes to confirm, and when asked to exit and restart the workbench for the changes to take effect.

Results

CICS Explorer reverts to the selected configuration and restarts.