Tasks
These tasks illustrate how you can set up and use the CICS® Explorer to
manage your CICSplex.
- Getting help
Use the online help system to browse, search, and
print system documentation. The help system also provides a context-sensitive
help that gives an overview of the resource with which you are working, and
a text search capability for finding the information you need by keyword.
The help is displayed either in a Help view in the workbench, in a separate
Help Contents window, or in an external browser window.
- Adding additional help documentation to the CICS Explorer
You can add documentation to the CICS Explorer to provide
additional help to further enhance the CICS Explorer help.
- Starting multiple instances of CICS Explorer
You can have more than one instance of CICS Explorer running
at the same time. Each instance must have its own workspace, so additional
instances of IBM CICS Explorer must be started from a command line
with the workspace name as a data parameter.
- Updating and installing software
You can use the facilities provided by the Eclipse platform
to update your CICS Explorer software or add new software plug-ins,
such as CICS tools.
- Working with editors
You can edit or browse resources using the CICS Explorer resource
editor. These tasks explain the editor layout and how to use it.
- Working with perspectives
You can decide how you want to lay out the views in the CICS Explorer and
save the layout as a new perspective. These tasks explain how to work
with perspectives to meet your operational requirements.
- Working with resources
These example tasks illustrate how you can manage resources
using the CICS Explorer.
You must be connected to a CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® version
4 or later to edit or perform actions against resources.
- Working with system connections
These example tasks illustrate how you can configure and change
your system connections.
- Working with views
The CICS Explorer displays
resource information in views. You can decide on the size and position
of the views, and what information to show in them. These tasks explain
how to work with the views to meet your operational requirements.