Exporting a CICS bundle project directly to an HFS file system

You can deploy your event binding file to a CICS® system by exporting a bundle directly to an HFS file system.

About this task
Note: You can only export a bundle directly to an HFS file system if your network is using Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) . The procedure does not work for IPv6 networks.
  1. Right-click your CICS Bundle project in the the project explorer. And select Export to System z HFS. The Export to System z HFS window opens.
  2. Enter the Host name of your target z/OS hfs system.
  3. Enter an FTP Port number to use for the transfer.
  4. Enter a Username and Password to use for the transfer. You can optionally save the password.
  5. Specify the name of an HFS directory to use for the transfer.
  6. You can select Delete current contents of HFS directory to remove any existing files in the target HFS directory before the file transfer.
  7. Click Finish.
Results
You have exported a bundle to your HFS file system. The bundle has been unpacked into the specified directory. You can now define and install your bundle resource definition in your CICS System.
The CICS Explorer export wizard remembers the target system details, and will remember the password, if you saved it.
Note: The unpacked event binding file has an .xml suffix, and is in the UTF-8 ASCII (Unicode) format. The file is not readable in a z/OS text editor.