IBM® Customer Information Control System (CICS®) Explorer is the new face of CICS Integration point for CICS tooling with rich CICS views, data, and methods.

Are you looking for new ways to accelerate the transfer of knowledge, skills, and best practices to the next generation of technical staff and experts? Do you need to maintain productivity and protect service-levels? CICS Explorer™ and System z® lead the way to platform simplification.

IBM CICS Explorer has a common, intuitive, Eclipse-based environment for architects, developers, administrators, system programmers, and operators. The task-oriented views provide integrated access to a broad range of data and control capabilities, and it also has powerful, context-sensitive resource editors. Integration point for CICS TS, CICS Tools, CICS TG, PD Tools, and Rational® Tools are extensible by independent software vendors (ISV), system integrators (SI), and customers who use our Software Development Kit.

In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we focus on the new CICS Explorer. The first part of the book is an overview of the CICS Explorer along with all of the CICS Tools’ plug-ins. In the second part of the book, we focus on several scenarios in which you can use the CICS Explorer with the CICS Tools plug-ins to resolve various problems.

Part 1. CICS Explorer Introductions

Chapter 1. CICS Explorer introduction

Chapter 2. Getting started with CICS Explorer

Chapter 3. Implementing IBM CICS Explorer

Chapter 4. CICS Explorer base familiarization

Chapter 5. CICS Explorer navigation walkthrough

Chapter 6. CICS Explorer IA plug-in familiarization

Chapter 7. CICS Explorer CM plug-in familiarization

Chapter 8. CICS Explorer PA plug-in familiarization

Chapter 9. CICS Explorer TG plug-in familiarization

Chapter 10. CICS Explorer Tivoli OMEGAMON XE plug in familiarization

Chapter 11. CICS Deployment Assistant

Chapter 12.

Chapter 13. CICS Explorer troubleshooting

Part 2. Scenarios

Chapter 14. CICS Explorer - MQ application migration

Chapter 15. CICS Explorer clean up scenario

Chapter 16. CICS Explorer performance scenario

Chapter 17. CICSPlex SM enablement using the CICS Explorer

Chapter 18. CICS Explorer resource manipulation scenarios

Chapter 18. CICS Explorer resource manipulation scenarios