Downloadable documentation

CICS® Transaction Gateway documentation is provided for download to your environment. You can use versions of the IBM® Knowledge Center on a server over your organization's intranet, or offline as a local installation on your own system. You can use IBM Knowledge Center on Windows, Linux®, or z/OS®. The version of IBM Knowledge Center for use on Windows or Linux is called the IBM Knowledge Center Installer for IBM Explorer for z/OS Aqua, or Knowledge Center Installer for short. The version of IBM Knowledge Center for use on z/OS is called IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS, or KC4Z for short

A locally hosted Knowledge Center provides the following benefits:
  • You can install the documentation of multiple, related products into one single, local Knowledge Center in your own environment.
  • You can install a Knowledge Center on one of your intranet servers.
  • You can access the installed product documentation with a limited Internet connection.
  • You can access the installed product documentation from other applications .For example, Knowledge Center Installers allows you to access the documentation from Eclipse applications. IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS provides a LookAt application for accessing message documentation. There are some features of the internet-hosted IBM Knowledge Center, such as providing feedback, that rely on internet connections or services, and these are not available in the local version.

    The documentation in Knowledge Center Installer and IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS is refreshed on a schedule that is independent of product releases. As a result, there might occasionally be temporary differences between the CICS Transaction Server documentation in the locally-hosted Knowledge Centers and the documentation in the internet-hosted IBM Knowledge Center and PDFs.

Knowledge Centre Installer

IBM Knowledge Center Installer for IBM Explorer for z/OS Aqua (or Knowledge Center Installer) is an application that enables you to install an IBM Knowledge Center on your own Microsoft Windows or Linux systems for local access. The pre-built Knowledge Center includes the documentation of IBM Explorer for z/OS (z/OS Explorer) and documentation of associated products, including CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS.

For details on how to work with Knowledge Center Installer, see Knowledge Center Installer information website.