Starting CICS Explorer
To start CICS Explorer® for Aqua, double-click the zosexplorer.exe file (zosexplorer on Linux® or macOS), in a subdirectory called zosexplorer. To start CICS Explorer on Eclipse Marketplace, start the Eclipse client it is installed into.
- Connection details for connecting to CICS® systems or CICSPlex® SM WUI servers
- User IDs for accessing CICS systems or CICSPlex SM
- User-customized view and perspective information
- User files, for example bundled projects and text files that are created in the CICS Explorer Resource perspective.
By default, the workspace directory of CICS Explorer for Aqua is called .zosexplorer and is located in your local user directory. CICS Explorer on Eclipse Marketplace uses the workspace of the Eclipse it is installed into.
If you do not want to update your default workspace, start CICS Explorer with a different workspace by using the -data option to specify a new target path for the workspace. For example, to start CICS Explorer and create a new workspace in the location c:\my_cicsexplorer_workspace, use the following command:
C:\zosexplorer\zosexplorer.exe -data c:\my_cicsexplorer_workspace
Starting CICS Explorer with customizations
You can start CICS Explorer in a different workspace to store your user data, in multiple instances, or in a different language.