Starting the CICS Explorer in a national language

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:
  1. Navigate to the folder where you downloaded the CICS Explorer and right-click the cicsexplorer.exe file.
  2. Click Create shortcut. The new shortcut is added to the folder.
  3. Right-click the shortcut and click Properties.
  4. 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.
    An example screen capture of a shortcut file.
  5. In the General tab you can change the name of the shortcut to something memorable, for example CICS Explorer Japanese.
  6. Click OK to save the changes. Double-click the shortcut to launch CICS Explorer in the specified national language.

On a Linux system:
  1. Create an Application Launcher.
  2. In the Name field enter a name for the Launcher, for example CICS Explorer Japanese.
  3. In the Command field, click Browse and navigate to the cicsexplorer file in the location where you downloaded the CICS Explorer.
  4. 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. An example screen capture of a Launcher file.
  5. 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)

  1. Open a Command Prompt or Terminal window.
  2. 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

  3. 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.
  1. Navigate to the CICS_Explorer folder where you downloaded the CICS Explorer.
  2. 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.
    A screen capture of a cicsexplorer.ini file showing the two additional lines: -nl and ja (for Japanese) at the end of the file.
  3. 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.