Views
A view is a visual component in the workbench. CICS Explorer® displays resource information in views. You can decide on the size and position of the views, and what information to show in them. These tasks explain how to work with the views to meet your operational requirements.
- Views overview
Each perspective contains one or more views. A view is a visual component in the workbench that provides a way to navigate the information in your workbench. Related views are grouped into tab groups, and each tab group is contained in a pane in the workbench window. - 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. - Moving views and tab groups
You can change the position of all views in the workbench except for the CICSplex Explorer view. You can move views in their current tab group, or into a different tab group. - Resizing tab groups and views
When you resize a tab group, the views in the tab group are automatically resized as well. - Moving columns in a view
You can change the size of a column, reposition a column, or set columns to equal widths in a view. - Changing columns in a view
When you open a view to display a CICS® resource, a subset of the resource attributes is displayed. You can add and remove resource attributes to display as columns in the view, and change the order of those columns. - Filtering resources in a view
When you open a resource view, it might show many resources. You can apply a filter to show resources with similar resource attributes, or to locate a single resource. You can filter by one or more resource attributes that are displayed as columns in the view. - Sorting resources in a view
When you open a resource view, the resources are sorted by a resource attribute (a column in the view). With CICS TS Version 4.2 and later, you can sort the resources by any column in the view, and change the sort order.
Parent topic: Basic tutorial