Opening views

When you first open CICS Explorer®, the default workbench perspective, which contains the default view set, is displayed. You can add other views to the workbench to display additional information about your CICSplex.

About this task

Resource views are available from the Operations or Definitions menu on the main menu for the workbench. Depending on whether you are in the CICS SM perspective or SM Administration perspective, these menus provide options for different resource views. Other views are available from the Help menu.

All views are available from the Show View window.

Procedure

To open a view, use one of the following steps.

Results

The selected view is opened in the workbench.

For some CICS® system connections, a view might display an error message because the view has sorting specified but the connection does not support sorting by a column. In this situation, remove the sorting to open the view. See Sorting resources in a view.

For some CICS system connections, a view might display an error message because the view has complex filtering specified but the connection supports only the "Equal to" (=) filter operator. Use one of the following methods to resolve the situation and open the view: