In the Windows operating
system, you can start CICS Explorer® in
a supported national language by creating and using a shortcut, using
a command in a Command Prompt window, or editing the CICS Explorer zosexplorer.ini file.
About this task
If you use a shortcut or a command in a Command Prompt
window to start CICS Explorer in
a specified national language, you can still start CICS Explorer in the default language.
To do this, double-click the zosexplorer.exe file.
However,
if you edit the CICS Explorer zosexplorer.ini file
to start CICS Explorer in
a specified national language, you cannot start CICS Explorer in the default language
unless you edit the file and undo the change.
Use one of the
methods in the following procedure to start CICS Explorer in
the national language that you require.
Procedure
- Use the following steps to create and use a shortcut.
- Navigate to the folder where you downloaded CICS Explorer and
right-click the zosexplorer.exe file.
- Click Create shortcut. The new
shortcut is added to the folder.
- Right-click the shortcut and click Properties.
- In the Shortcut tab, place your
cursor at the end of the Target field, following
the double quotation marks. Type -nl xx,
where xx is the code for the language, as listed
in Starting CICS Explorer in a translated language.
For
example:
"C:\zosexplorer\zosexplorer.exe" -nl ja
- Optional: Click the General tab
and enter a meaningful name for the shortcut, for example CICS
Explorer Japanese.
- Click OK to save the changes.
- To start CICS
Explorer in the national language that you specified, double-click
the new shortcut.
- Use the following steps to use a command in a Command Prompt
window.
- Open a Command Prompt window.
- Type the full path to the CICS Explorer executable file, followed
by -nl xx, where xx is
the code for the language, as listed in Starting CICS Explorer in a translated language.
For example:
C:\Explorer\zosexplorer\zosexplorer.exe
-nl ja
- To start CICS
Explorer in the national language that you specified, press Enter.
- Use the following steps to edit the CICS Explorer zosexplorer.ini file.
- Navigate to the zosexplorer folder
where you downloaded the CICS
Explorer.
- Edit the zosexplorer.ini file and
add the following two lines of text to the end of the file, where xx is
the code for the language, as listed in Starting CICS Explorer in a translated language.
-nl
xx
The text must be on two lines,
as shown in the following example.
- Save and close the file.
- To start CICS
Explorer in the national language that you specified, double-click
the zosexplorer.exe file.