Working with a resource

When you have established a connection between CICS® CM plug-in and your CICS system, you can view the groups and resources defined in a configuration and make changes to the resources using the editor.

About this task

You can search, using the search dialog, to find the required resource, or you can see the resources at the configuration level. Also, you can use the Configurations, Lists, and Groups views to navigate to a group, where you can click the group to display the resources defined in the resource definition views except for the zFS Definitions. To run the search dialog you can right-click in the Configurations view and Groups view or click the search icon in the toolbar the torch search icon to open the Search dialog window. See Searching for a resource for further information about other ways to run a search and the search dialog options.

Five default resource definition views are available when the CICS CM workbench is initially started: Transaction Definitions, Program Definitions, File Definitions, TD Queue Definitions, and zFS Definitions. Many other resource definition views are available; you can open them through the Administration menu on the toolbar or click Window > Show View > Other and select a view to add to your workbench. See Resource definitions views for more information.

When the resource has been located, you can edit it from a resource definition view by right-clicking the resource and clicking Open. See the Editor documentation for further information. Changes made in the editor can be displayed in the History view.