Finding your way around the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface

This section describes how to find your way around the CICSPlex® SM Web User Interface.

Returning to a previous display

Three icons in the assistance allow you to return to previous displays as follows:

Table 6. Previous display icons
Icons Description Meaning
 Illustration of the 'go back to start' icon.
Go back to start Return to the first page you saw in this window
 Illustration of the 'go back to last menu' icon.
Go back to last menu Return to the last menu, if any, that was displayed in this window
 Illustration of the 'go back' icon.
Go back Return to the previous menu or view

Open links

Open links appear in the navigation frame as follows:

Home
Opens your home menu using the current context and scope. You may return to the current display using the Go back icon.
Repeat Last Menu
Open the last menu that was displayed using the current context and scope. You may return to the current display using the Go back icon.

Expanding and collapsing the items of a navigation frame

Some of the menu choices in the navigation frame may be organized into groups and displayed as a single item with a title (collapsed) in the navigation frame. The expand icon, as shown in Table 2, is displayed next to the title. If you select the expand icon or the title of a group the menu choices within that group is expanded and the expand icon is replaced with the collapse icon, shown in Table 2. An example of this is shown in Figure 7. Selecting the collapse icon or the title of the group collapses the list of menu choices again.

You organize menu choices into groups using the View Editor. For information about the View Editor see Customizing the Web User Interface.

Opening a new window

You can select the New Window link in the navigation frame to open a new window.

If your web browser allows you to have more than one window open at any one time, a new window is opened showing a new instance of the data in your work frame. The two instances of the data are independent of each other; any operation you perform in one of the windows does not affect the data displayed in the other window, until you refresh the data.

The number of windows that a user can have open at any one time is limited to 63.

If your web browser does not support multiple windows, a new window is opened but the existing window is hidden.

Closing a window

You can close a window in the normal way, for example by selecting the close box on the title bar of the window, if available, or you can use the Close window link in the navigation frame.

You may need to close one or more windows in order to avoid exceeding the limit on the number of windows you are allowed to have open at any one time.

Signing off

You can sign off from the Web User Interface by:

  1. Selecting the Sign off link in the navigation frame of one of your windows, then
  2. Closing all windows in the normal way or exiting the web browser

Using links

Links are displayed in the normal style for your web browser. A link connects a field in one display with related information in another display, and may be:

Link fields are defined using the View editor. For details about the View Editor, see Customizing the Web User Interface.

Links are displayed and actioned in the normal way for your web browser.

Selecting a view or a menu

You can select a view or a menu by selecting a link in either the navigation frame or the work frame. You may need to select choices from more than one menu before reaching the view or the menu that you are interested in.

Start of changeFor example, if you are interested in looking at the status of CorbaServers, select CICS® operations views to display the menu illustrated in Figure 9.

Figure 9. Example operations menu
 This figure shows an example operations views menu panel. It contains a list of available operations views and related resources.

From here, select Enterprise Java™ component operations views to open the menu shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10. Enterprise Java component operations views menu
 This figure shows an example menu panel. It contains a list of Enterprise Java component views and related resources.

Now click the CorbaServers link to display the tabular view shown in Figure 11.

Figure 11. Example CorbaServer tabular view
 This figure shows an example CorbaServer tabular view listing 2 CorbaServers.
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Start of changeYou can display a detail view by selecting a link in a tabular view. For example, , select one of the links in the CorbaServer name column shown in Figure 11 to display the detail view shown in Figure 12.

Figure 12. Detail of the CorbaServer EJB1
 This figure shows detail of a CorbaServer detail view.
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Sorting a view

The data in a column of a tabular view may be sorted in either ascending or descending order. Whether or not the data may be sorted is determined by the creator of the view using the View Editor. For information about the View Editor, seeCustomizing the Web User Interface. If the data may be sorted, the column title field contains a sort ascending icon and a sort descending icon.

See Figure 11 for an example of the sort ascending and descending icons.

Summarizing a view

Sometimes, data requests can result in many lines of information, possibly spreading over a number of display pages. The amount of data displayed can be summarized using any field that has been defined as a summarizing field. Summarizing fields are defined when the view is created using the View Editor. For information about the View Editor, see Customizing the Web User Interface. There is no limit to the number of fields you can specify for summarizing the data in a view.

Fields that can be used for summarizing data have a summarize icon (  Summarize icon) at the top of the column. Select the icon and the information for each item is amalgamated and a summarized view is displayed.

A summarized view is a special form of the tabular view, comprising one line for each discrete value in the result set. The Record count column on the summary view indicates the number of records from the preceding tabular view combined to form the line of summarized information.

Start of changeThe way the information is summarized depends upon choices made by the view designer and the type of data in each column. Supplied views all use the default summary types as follows:

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You can perform actions on all the items in a summary line by selecting the check box next to the record number in the left-hand Record column.

You can use only one field at a time to summarize data. To summarize the same data using another field, select the Go Back icon (  Go back icon) to return to the current tabular display then select the summarize icon for the other field.

For example, to summarize active tasks by transaction, open the Active task view by clicking Active tasks on the main menu, then click the summarize icon in the Transaction ID column to display a summarized view similar to Figure 13.

Figure 13. Summary information
 This figure shows an example Active task view containing information summarized by transaction ID. 6 summarized records are shown.

Refreshing views

There are two ways in which you can refresh views:

Refresh on demand

You can refresh the data displayed at any one time by selecting the Refresh button in the selection criteria and refresh area, when available.

The Refresh button is not available for a view of the data collected for a previous view. For example, to refresh the data for a detail view opened for one record shown on a tabular view:

Note:
The Refresh button is never available on menus and confirmation panels.

Automatic Refresh

The automatic refresh function is available only if you are using a Javascript-enabled browser. The automatic refresh function allows you to update the display automatically and control how frequently the data in a view is updated. The automatic refresh function is defined as either available with a default value, or not available for a view, using the View Editor. If automatic refresh is available, an entry field and a check box appear in the selection criteria and refresh area. You can:

Operating on resources

With a detail view, you can perform an operation on one resource only. With a tabular view, you can perform an operation on one or more resources by selecting the relevant resources. You can select resources by selecting the check boxes beside each displayed resource or you can select or deselect all the resources matching your selection criteria using Select all and Deselect all icons located above the title box of the check box column. After selecting the resource or resources select the appropriate action button to perform the operation.

For some operations, for example, opening a file, the action is performed immediately for all the selected resources. For operations that may have a significant impact on users of the system, such as flushing a journal or shutting down a CICS region, a confirmation panel may be displayed.

To use a confirmation panel:

For example, say you want to flush journals DFHLOG (with an MVS™ log stream name of FVCPSM.IYK3Z8BC.DFHLOG) and DFHSHUNT (with an MVS log stream name of FVCPSM.IYK3Z8BC.DFHSHUNT), first select the check boxes beside both journals, then select the Flush action button.

You may first see the confirmation panel for the DFHLOG journal, as shown in Figure 14, on selecting the 'Yes' confirm button, you are presented with the confirmation panel for the DFHSHUNT journal. Alternatively, select the 'Yes to 2 remaining' confirm button on the DFHLOG confirmation panel, in which case you are not presented with the DFHSHUNT confirmation panel.

Figure 14. Confirmation panel for flushing the DFHLOG journal
 This figure shows an example flush confirmation panel for the DFHLOG journal.

Alternatively, you could work with a single resource at a time from its detail view. For example, you could first flush journal DFHLOG that has an MVS log stream name of CTS.V220.IYCRST16.DFHLOG by displaying its detail view as shown in Figure 12. You could then select the Flush button and be presented with the confirmation panel shown in Figure 14. Here you could select the Yes button. Similarly for the appropriate DFHSHUNT journal.

Modifying attributes and entering parameters

On some detail views and confirmation panels, you are given the opportunity to change attributes or specify parameters for an action. The style of the attribute and parameter fields is defined using the view editor. For information about the view editor, seeCustomizing the Web User Interface.

It is possible to change attribute values for a resource as follows:

It is possible to specify or change a parameter value as follows:

Figure 12 shows an example of a selection box which may allow you to Enable or Disable this DFHLOG journal.

Printing a view

The recommended procedure for printing a view is:

If you use the original window before you close the print preview window, a message indicating that data is no longer available in the print preview window may be issued.

Accessing the customizable view and menu help

To access your customized help information, if available, select the Help link in the work frame. The contents and organization of the customizable view and menu help is site specific.

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