Administering platforms and applications

When you have deployed applications on a platform, you can use the CICS Explorer® to view, update, and remove the applications. You can also remove a platform from a CICSplex if it is no longer required. Secure a platform and its deployed applications by setting up security profiles.

Use the CICS® Cloud perspective in the CICS Explorer to view and administer your installed platforms and applications.
  • The Cloud Explorer view in the CICS Cloud perspective shows the platforms that you have created and installed in a CICSplex, and the application versions that are installed on each platform. Each installed platform is represented in a CICSplex by a PLATFORM resource, and each installed application version is represented in a CICS region by an APPLCTN resource. The view displays the status of each installed platform, application, and CICS bundle, and the status of the CICS regions that are part of the platform. The view also shows the definitions for platform and application resources that exist but are not currently installed in your CICSplex, which are represented by PLATDEF and APPLDEF resources.
  • To see more details about an installed application version, in the Cloud Explorer view, double-click the name of the application to open it in the application descriptor editor. To find the private resources that have been installed in your CICS regions for the application, select the Private Resources tab in the editor. You can view the private resources by the CICS region where they are installed, or by the CICS bundle where they are defined. You can also view the DD names that z/OS® has generated for the LIBRARY concatenation of data sets for private LIBRARY resources.
  • The Project Explorer view in the CICS Cloud perspective shows the platform projects and application projects in your CICS Explorer workspace. Use this view for creating new platform and application projects, or updating your existing applications.

For more details about private resources, see Private resources for application versions