Creating and saving perspectives

You can create and save one or more perspectives to display your CICS system resources in different ways, depending on the function you are performing.

About this task

If you are performing a system administration role you might want to only display a subset of CICS Administration views, whereas if you are performing an operations role, you might want to only display CICS Operations views. You can create the layout of views that you want and save it as a new perspective.

  1. Open, close, or move views until you achieve the layout you want.
  2. Click Window -> Save Perspective As on the CICS Explorer menu bar.
  3. In the "Save Perspective As" dialog, type a name for the new perspective, such as Admin in the example below, and click OK
Results
The new perspective is saved and becomes the active perspective. The shortcut bar shows the active perspective as a selected button The shortcut bar showing Admin as the active perspective, alongside a button for the CICS SM perspective. next to buttons for other perspectives.
Note: When you save a perspective, you save only the layout of the views and editors in the workbench. If you change the width of a column in a view, that change will be applied to that column in every perspective that contains the view.