Application Binding in CICS.

[Ankit Gupta]

What is Application Binding in CICS? And when do we use it? Have you used in a real production environment, can you please give a practical example on it?

[Anuj Dhawan]

For definition, please go here http://zmainframes.com/gloss?mode=glossaire#A and search for Application Binding.

[nicc]

Interesting - it mentions 'bundle' twice but does not define what 'bundle' is!

[Anuj Dhawan]

Interesting - it mentions 'bundle' twice but does not define what 'bundle' is!

CICS bundles are a unit of deployment for CICS resources that you want to manage together in a CICS region. Management bundles group related CICS bundles together for deployment and management in a CICSplex. Management bundles are installed in a CMAS, and the associated CICS bundles are installed in the CICS regions across the targeted CICSplex (or platform). You can create management bundles for an application or a platform.



PS.: Glossary is relatively new and not that exhaustive yet.

[Ankit Gupta]

Thanks Anuj!

Can you please give some answer for this too: "And when do we use it? Have you used in a real production environment, can you please give a practical example on it?"

[Anuj Dhawan]

For that you'll have to do some reading. If you have not done this already, start from these

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... tions.html
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecen ... nding.html
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... undle.html
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... view=embed

[Ankit Gupta]

Thanks for the links.