Before you can view any information, you must establish a connection between the CICS® TG plug-in and your Gateway daemon by providing details of the Gateway location, and statistics port. Authentication is not supported and any values specified are ignored. You can create multiple connections. Each connection must have a unique name.
The status bar at the bottom of the workbench displays the connection status. See Messages section in the CICS Explorer™ User Guide for more information on messages.
You can create multiple connections under the same Type. The connection names that you create are displayed in the CICS TG Explorer view. You can see all you connections by name in the drop-down in the Connections window.
You can also see the status
of all of your connections if you click the connection
status bar menu icon in the connection
status bar in lower right corner of the workbench window, as shown
below.
You can connect to a system from the connection status bar, see Connecting to a system from the connection status bar for more information.