Using CICS Explorer perspectives
A perspective is a modifiable screen layout that allows you to view information relating to a system or product. Different perspectives contain different sets of views, which are displays of specific CICS® data that relates to the current context or scope. You can customize your perspective by adding, removing, or moving the views in it. CICS Explorer® provides some default perspectives, including CICS Cloud, CICS SM, and SM Administration.
Available perspectives
Perspectives | Descriptions |
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The CICS Cloud perspective | To manage your applications, platforms, and policies on the cloud. |
The CICS SM perspective | To manage your CICS systems. |
The SM Administration perspective | To manage your systems and workloads for administration. |
The z/OS perspective | Derived from z/OS Explorer, which you can use to manage your z/OS® artifacts. |
The Resource perspective | Derived from z/OS Explorer, which you can use to manage projects and their resources. |
The Remote System Explorer perspective | Derived from z/OS Explorer, which you can use to manage artifacts of your remote systems. |
Get started with CICS Explorer perspectives by completing the following tasks.
Opening a perspective for the first time


You are then presented with the default perspective.
Switching to another perspective
To switch to a different perspective, click the Open
Perspective icon on the workbench toolbar and select one perspective.
For more ways to switch between perspectives, see Switching between perspectives.
Navigating to connected regions in a perspective
The CICS SM perspective contains the CICSplex Explorer view on the left, which shows all the regions and CICSplexes that CICS Explorer is connected to. You can click a CICS region or CICSplex to see the information about its resources in corresponding views.
Customizing the perspective layout
You can customize the perspective to suit your business needs; for example, you can open and close views, or move and resize views by dragging the view tabs or their borders. Changes to the perspective remain after you reopen CICS Explorer. If you want to save a customized perspective to which you can revert later, save it to the view configuration by clicking on the main menu. For detailed instructions, see Customizing and saving perspectives. If you want to distribute custom perspectives among multiple end users in your enterprise, see Example: creating and distributing custom perspectives.
To restore the perspective to the last saved layout, click Restore Defaults on the Perspectives pane in the Preferences window. For detailed instructions, see Resetting perspectives.
on the main menu. To reset a perspective to its default layout, click