Installing on a shared Linux server

You can install CICS Explorer® on a shared Linux server and access it using the X Window System.

About this task

This task describes how to install CICS Explorer on a shared Linux server. The person doing the installation must have write access to the server. 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

Download the CICS Explorer .tar.gz file from the download site to your local workstation.
Log in to the Linux server and create a new directory for the CICS Explorer, for example; /opt/Explorer
Extract the contents of the .tar.gz file to the new directory.

Results

CICS Explorer is now installed on the shared server. Users can use SSH tunnelling to access the CICS Explorer client, and display the output on the local terminal. The CICS Explorer executable file is cicsexplorer located in the CICS_Explorer directory. Using the previous example, the file path is /opt/Explorer/CICS_Explorer/cicsexplorer.

When a user starts CICS Explorer for the first time, a workspace is created on the local file system, for example; /home/username/.cicsexplorer. 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.

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Last updated: Thursday, 27 June 2019