The first time CICS Explorer starts after CICS
DA is installed, the Welcome screen is shown. Click the Workbench icon
to close the Welcome page and view the Workbench. You open
the CICS® DA perspective by
clicking the Open Perspective icon
next to the shortcut bar, then clicking Other
> CICS DA and then OK. Alternatively,
click Window > Open Perspective on the Explorer
menu bar and click Other > CICS DA and then OK.
When CICS DA opens
for the first time, all views are empty. You must connect to a system
and perform a discovery before you can view any data. An example of
the CICS DA perspective after
connection and discovery are complete is shown in the following screen:

The
default perspective contains the following views. See the related
links for more information.
- DA Projects
- The DA Projects view shows your CICS system
projects. Each project can contain information about CICS systems that CICS DA
has discovered.
- Jobs
- The Jobs view shows the jobs that match the name and user you
specify.
- z/OS® Job
- The z/OS Job view shows
all the output data sets for a specified job.
- System Log
- The System Log view shows the system log for the current connection.
- z/OS Command
- The z/OS Command view provides an interface to the z/OS console.
You can enter commands in the text field and see the response in the
view
- Console
- The Console view provides a history of the actions you have performed,
such as submitting a job, or changing and saving a file. The view
also shows reports from CICS DA actions, for example cloning a CICS
region, adding a CICS region to a CICSplex, and so on.
- Editor
- The editor view shows the contents of files. The editor view is
empty in the example screen capture.
- Properties
- The Properties view shows details about the selected artifact.
You can view the properties for CICS systems,
data sets, data set members, or jobs.