The SM Administration perspective

The SM Administration perspective contains a core set of views to help you get started with system and workload management administration. The active perspective name is displayed on a button in the shortcut bar. The perspective name is truncated to fit in the text field. The shortcut bar showing the active perspective name - SM Administration.

The default SM Administration perspective is shown in the following screen capture.

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 perspective to the last saved configuration at any time by clicking Window > Reset Perspective from the main workbench menu bar. You can reset the supplied perspectives to their default configuration using the Reset action in the Preferences Perspective page.

You can create and save multiple perspectives. For example, you might want to set up one perspective that shows only the workload views, and one perspective that only shows the operation views. For further information on using perspectives, see the following related links.
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. Any filter attributes you have set are retained when you switch to another perspective or view.