Capabilities

Use the Capabilities page to enable or disable product components that are not applicable to your current perspective.

The Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) contains many standard components. Some of the functions of these components are indicated by icons on the toolbar or additional menu items. An application, like IBM CICS Explorer, might not use all the components that Eclipse provides, and to display unused icons is confusing.

The Capabilities page provides a mechanism for enabling or disabling various product components, and therefore hiding the unused icons. When CICS Explorer is the only application, non-CICS Explorer components are disabled by default as shown in the following screen capture.

A screen capture showing the Capabilities Preferences View with the "Non-CICS capabilities" checkbox unchecked. This indicates that the non-CICS components are disabled.

To enable the non-CICS components, click the Non-CICS IDE activities checkbox and click Apply. The non-CICS components are displayed.

If additional application plug-ins are installed additional capabilities might be displayed. These capabilities are enabled and disabled in the same way as for the CICS Explorer.