When you launch the CICS Explorer®, by default it
opens in the same language as your operating system provided that
the language is one of the languages supported by CICS Explorer. Currently supported
languages are English (en), Japanese (ja), and Simplified Chinese
(zh). You can launch the CICS Explorer in any of the
supported languages independent of the operating system language.
There are three ways that you can launch the CICS Explorer in one of the supported
national languages:
- From a shortcut (Windows)
or Launcher (Linux) file
- From a Command Prompt (Windows)
or Terminal (Linux)
- By editing the CICS
Explorer cicsexplorer.ini file
The following procedures describe how to launch CICS Explorer in a different language.
Using a shortcut (Windows)
or Launcher (Linux) file
On
a Windows system:- Navigate to the folder where you downloaded the CICS Explorer and right-click the cicsexplorer.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 two character code for the language: ja for
Japanese, zh for Simplified Chinese, and en
for English.
- In the General tab you can change the name
of the shortcut to something memorable, for example CICS
Explorer Japanese.
- Click OK to save the changes. Double-click
the shortcut to launch CICS
Explorer in the specified national language.
On a Linux system:- Create an Application Launcher.
- In the Name field enter a name for the
Launcher, for example CICS Explorer Japanese.
- In the Command field, click Browse and
navigate to the cicsexplorer file in the location
where you downloaded the CICS
Explorer.
- Place your cursor at the end of the Command field
and type -nl xx, where xx is
the two character code for the language: ja for
Japanese, zh for Simplified Chinese, and en
for English.

- Click Close to save the Launcher. Double-click
the Launcher to launch the CICS
Explorer in the specified national language.
Using a Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (Linux)
- Open a Command Prompt or Terminal window.
- Enter the full path to the CICS
Explorer executable file followed by -nl xx,
where xx is the two character code for the language: ja for
Japanese, zh for Simplified Chinese, and en
for English. For example, on a Windows system
you might enter:
C:\Explorer\CICS_Explorer\cicsexplorer.exe -nl ja
On
a Linux system you might enter:/home/user/Desktop/CICS_Explorer/cicsexplorer -nl ja
- Press Enter to launch the CICS
Explorer in the specified national language.
Editing the cicsexplorer.ini file
Important: With the previous two methods, you can always launch
the CICS Explorer in
the default language by double-clicking the file cicsexplorer.exe (cicsexplorer on Linux). If you choose to edit the cicsexplorer.ini file
to run a national language, you must reverse the change to launch
the CICS Explorer in
the default language.
- Navigate to the CICS_Explorer folder where
you downloaded the CICS
Explorer.
- Edit the cicsexplorer.ini file and add the
following two lines of text to the end of the file: -nl and xx,
where xx is the two character code for the language: ja for
Japanese, zh for Simplified Chinese, and en
for English. It is important that the text is on two lines as shown
in the following screen capture.
- Save and close the file. When you next double-click the cicsexplorer.exe file
(cicsexplorer on Linux), CICS Explorer launches
in the specified national language.