Installing on a remote network drive

You can install the CICS Explorer® on a remote network drive. The software can be shared by multiple users and can be centrally managed.

About this task

This task describes how to install the CICS Explorer on a remote network drive. The person doing the installation must have write access to the network drive. If you want to install CICS Explorer by using the Installation Manager, see Installing CICS Explorer with IBM Installation Manager. When Installation Manager prompts for the location to install CICS Explorer, you can use the Browse button to find the remote network drive location.

Procedure

  1. Download the CICS Explorer .zip file from the download site to your local workstation.
  2. Extract the contents to a new directory on the remote network drive.
  3. When the extract is complete, open the CICS_Explorer directory in the new directory on the remote network drive. Locate the cicsexplorer.exe file and create a shortcut on your local workstation.
  4. Right-click the shortcut and click Properties. The Target field displays the path to the CICS Explorer executable file on the remote network drive. You must distribute the shortcut to all users who will run CICS Explorer. If the path from their workstations to the remote server is different from the one already there, you must change the path in the shortcut.

Results

The CICS Explorer is now installed on the remote network drive. The users start the CICS Explorer by double-clicking the shortcut icon that you distributed. To change the location of the CICS Explorer user workspace, see "Changing the CICS Explorer workspace location" using the related link at the bottom of this topic.
Parent topic: Installing the CICS Explorer
Related reference:
CICS Explorer installation options

explorer_install_remote.html | Timestamp icon Last updated: Thursday, 27 June 2019