CICS Explorer prerequisites

To install and use the CICS Explorer®, you must have the correct operating system on your workstation, the correct service applied to your CICS® systems, and CICS or CICSPlex® SM configured to use the CICS management client interface.

The CICS Explorer prerequisites are listed on the CICS Explorer System Prerequisites web page.

For a successful system connection, CICS Explorer must determine the CICSPlex SM topology. To determine the topology, CICS Explorer requires at least READ access to the following CICSPlex SM resource tables:

CMAS resource table
CICSplex configuration definition resource table
CICS region data operations resource table

You must ensure that your security manager configuration provides this minimum level of access to the function and type combinations CONFIG.DEF, TOPOLOGY.DEF, and OPERATE.REGION for each user ID that uses the CICS Explorer.

CICS Explorer also requires that a default CMAS context is set for the WUI. This context is set in the WUI parameter DEFAULTCMASCTXT. Failure to set the context results in the error IZE0106E error with INVALIDPARM CONTEXT while connecting CICS Explorer.

Configuring CICS or CICSPlex SM

You must configure CICSPlex SM or your CICS regions before you can connect to them with the CICS Explorer. You can connect the CICS Explorer to the following systems:

To a CICS TS for z/OS®, Version 3 system through a CICSPlex SM WUI server. This option provides the ability only to view CICS resources in the CICSplex.
To a CICS TS for z/OS, Version 4 or later system through a CICSPlex SM WUI server or a CICSPlex SM MAS. This option provides the ability to view, change, and perform actions against CICS resources in the CICSplex.
To a single CICS TS for z/OS, Version 4 or later CICS region. This option provides the ability to view, change, and perform actions against CICS resources in that region.

To connect to a CICS TS for z/OS, Version 3 system through a CICSPlex SM WUI server, no setup is needed in CICSPlex SM. Follow the connection instruction in the CICS Explorer Help information.

To connect to a CICS TS for z/OS, Version 4 or later system you can configure CICSPlex SM or your CICS region to use the CICS management client interface. See Setting up access for CICS Explorer for instructions on how to do this.

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Last updated: Thursday, 27 June 2019