The CICS Cloud perspective
The default CICS Cloud perspective consists of a core set of views for cloud administration. The active perspective name is displayed on a button in the shortcut bar.
- Cloud Explorer
- Project Explorer
- Problems
- Properties
- Search
The following screen capture is an example of the CICS Cloud perspective:

You can use the Cloud Explorer view to show
applications and platforms that are not installed, and you can switch
the hierarchy from platform to application by using the switch hierarchy
icon .
You can use the following icons in the shortcut bar to create application
bindings, applications, bundles, platforms, and policies.
You can use the icon in the connection status bar to select or edit a system connection.
You can tailor the perspective by adding new views, removing existing views, moving views around, or changing the size of views. When you close CICS Explorer®, any changes you made to the perspective are saved, and next time CICS Explorer starts, your tailored perspective is displayed.
You can restore the perspective to its last saved configuration at any time by clicking Restore Defaults on the Perspectives pane in the Preferences window.
from the main menu for the workbench. You can reset the supplied perspectives to their default configuration by clickingIf the views and functions in the perspective are not available, check that the associated CICS Explorer product component is enabled. See Enabling or disabling CICS Explorer product components.