Enabling or disabling CICS Explorer product components

You can disable a product component and limit the function available to use. If a product component is disabled, you can enable it to make the associated function available to use.

About this task

When CICS Explorer® first starts, by default, all functional components are available to use. You might want to disable a product component that you do not use. For example, if you are a CICS® application developer who does not need to use the system administration views, you can disable the CICS System Administration capability.

You might want to enable a product component if the function you require is not available. For example, if you use IBM Developer for Z and menu functions in the CICS SM perspective are not available, you can enable the CICS System Administration capability.

The following capabilities apply to CICS Explorer product components:
  • CICS Application Development. This capability includes the views in the CICS Cloud and CICS SM perspectives.
  • CICS System Administration. This capability includes the Definitions menu options in the CICS SM perspective and the views in the Resources, SM Administration, and z/OS perspectives.

To enable or disable CICS Explorer product components, use the following procedure.

Procedure

  1. Use the appropriate method to open the Preferences window:
    • Windows or Linux: Click Window > Preferences on the workbench menu bar.
    • OS X: Click IBM Explorer for z/OS > Preferences on the main menu.
  2. In the Contents pane of the Preferences window, expand General, then click Capabilities.
  3. Select the capability you want to enable, or clear the capability you want to disable, then click OK.

Results

If you enabled a capability, the associated views and functions are available. If you disabled a capability, the associated views and functions are not available.