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. You can also broaden the search scope to include external
sources of information. The help is displayed either in a Help
view in the workbench, in a separate Help Contents window, or in an
external browser window.
Integrating other help documentation in the CICS Explorer
You can enhance the CICS
Explorer help by integrating other documentation, such as locally
written operating processes and procedures, or documentation from
another source, such as the CICS® information
center.
Managing workloads
You can manage workloads using the CICS Explorer.
You can view active workloads and activate or quiesce routing and
target regions.
Starting the CICS Explorer in a national language
When you launch the CICS Explorer, by default it
opens in the same language as your operating system provided that
the language is one of the languages supported by CICS Explorer. Currently supported
languages are English (en), Japanese (ja), and Simplified Chinese
(zh). You can launch the CICS Explorer in any of the
supported languages independent of the operating system language.
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 Atom feeds
CICS can serve Atom feeds to web clients. The
Atom feeds consist of data that is supplied by CICS resources or application
programs. When you expose a CICS resource or application program as
an Atom feed or collection, users can read and update the data by
making HTTP requests from external client applications, such as feed
readers or Web mashup applications.
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 data sets
There are a number of actions you can perform against
data sets. These topics explain the actions an how to work with data
sets.
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. CICS and CICSPlex® SM
resources are displayed in resource views. Each resource view displays
a single type of resource, for example the File view displays only
file resources and the Program Definition view displays only program
definition resources.
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.
Working with z/OS Unix files
There are a number of actions you can perform against
z/OS Unix files. These topics explain the actions an how to work z/OS
Unix files.