These tasks illustrate how you can set up and use the CICS Explorer® to manage your
CICSplex.
Getting help
Use the online help system to browse, search, and print
system documentation. The help system also provides a context-sensitive
help that gives an overview of the resource with which you are working,
and a text search capability for finding the information you need
by keyword. You can also broaden the search scope to include external
sources of information. The help is displayed either in a Help
view in the workbench, in a separate Help Contents window, or in an
external browser window.
Integrating other help documentation in the CICS Explorer
You can enhance the CICS
Explorer help by integrating other documentation, such as locally
written operating processes and procedures, or documentation from
another source, such as the CICS® information
center.
Managing workloads
You can manage workloads using the CICS Explorer. You can view
active workloads and activate or quiesce routing and target regions.
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.
Switching workspaces
CICS Explorer uses a local workspace to save its data and
configuration files. You might have more than one workspace, each
containing a different configuration of CICS Explorer. You can switch
workspaces at any time.
Updating and installing software
You can use the facilities provided by the Eclipse platform
to update your CICS Explorer software
or add new software plug-ins, such as CICS tools.
Working with bundles
You can use bundles to deploy applications, events, and
Atom feeds to your CICS systems.
Working with Atom feeds
CICS can
serve Atom feeds to web clients. The Atom feeds consist of data that
is supplied by CICS resources
or application programs. When you expose a CICS resource or application program as an Atom
feed or collection, users can read and update the data by making HTTP
requests from external client applications, such as feed readers or
Web mashup applications.
Working with editors
You can edit or browse resources using the CICS Explorer resource
editor. These tasks explain the editor layout and how to use it.
Working with perspectives
You can decide how you want to lay out the views in the CICS Explorer and
save the layout as a new perspective. These tasks explain how to work
with perspectives to meet your operational requirements.
Working with resources
These example tasks illustrate how you can manage resources
using the CICS Explorer.
You must be connected to a CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® version 4
or later to edit or perform actions against resources. CICS and CICSPlex® SM
resources are displayed in resource views. Each resource view displays
a single type of resource, for example the File view displays only
file resources and the Program Definition view displays only program
definition resources.
Working with views
The CICS Explorer displays
resource information in views. You can decide on the size and position
of the views, and what information to show in them. These tasks explain
how to work with the views to meet your operational requirements.