Perspectives overview

A perspective is a layout of one or more views in the workbench. The first time CICS® Explorer is started, the Welcome view is displayed. Click the Go to Explorer icon to close the Welcome view and display the default CICS SM perspective. You can return to the Welcome view at any time by clicking Help > Welcome.

The default CICS SM perspective contains a basic set of views to help you get started. The active perspective name is displayed on a button in the shortcut bar The shortcut bar showing the active perspective name - CICS SM.

The default CICS SM perspective is shown below.

A picture of the default CICS SM perspective after the Welcome view is closed

You can tailor the perspective by adding new views, removing existing views, moving views around or changing the size of views. When you close CICS Explorer, any changes you made to the perspective are saved, and next time CICS Explorer starts, your tailored perspective is displayed.

You can restore the default perspective at any time by clicking Window > Reset Perspective from the main workbench menu bar.

You can create and save multiple perspectives. For example, you might want to set up one perspective that only shows the administration views, and one perspective that only shows the operation views. For further information on using perspectives, see the related links below.
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.