Files in the CICS Container Demonstration

For users of Enterprise Developer for Eclipse:

The files contained in the CICS container demonstration are as follows:

MSS folder Folder containing source files for the CICS application.
bld.bat Batch file to automate the process of building CICS container demonstration images.

For full details on the parameters you can specify to bld.bat see Running the CICS Container Demonstration.

bld.env Configuration file defining various environment variables that are used while building the images. The environment variables define details such as the names of installable files and strings to be used for different parts of the image names.
Dockerfile Dockerfile used to build the CICS container demonstration image.
MSS32_export.zip .zip file containing Micro Focus Directory Server (MFDS) resource definitions for the CICS application for use in 32-bit environments.
MSS64_export.zip .zip file containing MFDS resource definitions for the CICS application for use in 64-bit environments.
README*.* Files for HTML and plain text documents containing instructions on how to build the CICS container demonstration images.
unzip.ps1 PowerShell script to unzip MSS*_export.zip.
zipbld.ps1 PowerShell script to recreate MSS.zip to contain the source files for the CICS application.

For users of Enterprise Developer UNIX Components:

The files contained in the CICS container demonstration are as follows:

mssdata folder Folder containing Enterprise Developer data files for the CICS application. Storing this data enables you to volume mount the application's data to retain it across restarts.
src folder Folder containing source files for the CICS application.
bld.env* Configuration file defining various environment variables that are used while building the images. The environment variables define details such as the names of installable files and strings to be used for different parts of the image names.
bld.funcs

Definitions of functions used in the bld.sh script.

bld.sh Batch file to automate the process of building CICS container demonstration images.

For full details on the parameters you can specify to bld.sh see Running the CICS Container Demonstration.

bld_package.sh

Shell script to rebuild and package the CICS container demonstration application.

Dockerfile Dockerfile used to build the CICS container demonstration image.
MSS64_combined.xml File containing the region definitions for the CICS application.
README*.*

Files for HTML and plain text documents containing instructions on how to build the CICS container demonstration images.

sample_setup Script to start the Micro Focus Directory Server (MFDS), deploy the region definitions, then application and display the console .log file for the region until the container is terminated.
Note:
  • Some of the above files are platform-specific or version-specific, so your system might not include them all.
  • The name of the Enterprise Developer base image depends on the platform you are using:
    • On Red Hat Linux the base image is microfocus/entdevhub:rhel7_7.0_x64.
    • On SUSE Linux the base image is microfocus/entdevhub:sles12sp4_7.0_x64.