Creating and saving perspectives

You can create and save one or more perspectives to display your CICS® system resources in different ways, so that the perspective is relevant to the functions you perform.

About this task

You can create a layout of views and editors in the workbench and save this layout as a new perspective. You save only the layout of the views and editors in the workbench. To save the configuration of a view, see Configuring a CICS resource table view.

For example, for a system administrator role, you might want a perspective that displays only a subset of CICS Administration views. For an operations role, you might want a perspective that displays only CICS Operations views.

Procedure

  1. Open, close, or move views and editors to create the layout that you want.
  2. On the main menu for the workbench, click Window > Save Perspective As.
  3. In the Save Perspective As dialog, type a name for the new perspective, for example Admin, and click OK.

Results

The new perspective is saved and becomes the active perspective. A button that shows the name of the new perspective is displayed in the shortcut bar next to buttons for other perspectives.

The shortcut bar with a new Admin button.