Configurations view

Use the Configurations view to navigate through your Configuration Manager (CICS® CM) configurations. The Configurations view shows the configurations defined in CICS CM.

A CICS system definition (CSD) is indicated by a storage icon.

A CICSPlex® SM data repository context is indicated by a storage pool icon.

When you select a configuration, the history view is automatically populated.

Screen Capture of the population History view for CICSPlex SM configuration CPSMBAS1

To find out more about how to use the history view, see History view.

When you right-click a CICSPlex SM configuration and hover over Clean Up, the following options are available: Show resources with unique names, Show duplicate resources by name and type, Show orphaned Groups, Show shared resources, and Show orphaned resources. The results are displayed in the Search Results view.

Screen capture of the Configurations window displaying the right click menu for CICSPlex SM configurations with the options, show all resources, clean up, and search. The clean up option is selected displaying the further menus with choices show resources with unique names, show duplicate resources by name and type, show orphaned groups, show shared resources, and show orphaned resources.

When you right-click a CSD configuration and hover over Clean up, the following options are available: Show resources with unique names, Show duplicate resources by name and type, and Show orphaned Groups. The results are displayed in the Search Results view.

Screen capture of the Configurations window displaying the right click menu for CSD or CICSPlex SM configurations with the options, show all resources, clean up, and search. The clean up option is selected displaying the further menus with choices show resources with unique names, show duplicate resources by name and type, and show orphaned groups.

If you click a configuration, the Lists and Group views are populated. The Lists view displays the resource group lists for the configuration and the Groups view displays the resource groups.

Screen capture of the showing the groups and lists displayed after clicking a configuration in the configurations view.

Use the filter box in the Configurations view to filter the configurations displayed. Enter a character or string in the filter box to start the filtering of the configurations displayed. Use wildcard characters to replace characters or strings. Use an asterisk to replace a single or multiple character string, and use a plus character to replace a single character.

Screen capture of the filtered Configurations view with C*2 in filter box.

You can link to a selection in the Configurations view using the icon in the Lists and Groups views. If, for example, the icon is clicked in the Groups view, the groups displayed are linked to the configuration selected. Any further selections of configuration or group lists do not update the Groups view until the icon is clicked again. You can also link the Lists view to a selected configuration.

To search for resource definitions, right-click an individual configuration or select and click a range of configurations. Options are available to perform a general search or to search for a specific resource type. For details about how to search for a resource definition, see Searching for a resource .

To define a search for groups, select one or more configurations, right-click and select Search for Groups, see Searching for a group for more details.