Starting CICS Explorer in a national language: Linux

In the Linux operating system, you can start CICS Explorer® in a supported national language by creating and using an application launcher, using a command in a Terminal window, or editing the CICS Explorer zosexplorer.ini file.

About this task

If you use an application launcher or a command in a Terminal window to start CICS Explorer in a specified national language, you can still start CICS Explorer in the default language. To do this, double-click the zosexplorer file.

However, if you edit the CICS Explorer zosexplorer.ini file to start CICS Explorer in a specified national language, you cannot start CICS Explorer in the default language unless you edit the file and undo the change.

Use one of the methods in the following procedure to start CICS Explorer in the national language that you require.

Procedure

Use the following steps to create and use an application launcher.
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 zosexplorer 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 code for the language, as listed in Starting CICS Explorer in a national language. For example:
  /home/user/Desktop/zosexplorer/zosexplorer -nl ja
5. Click Close to save the launcher.
6. To start CICS Explorer in the national language that you specified, double-click the new launcher.
Use the following steps to use a command in a Terminal window.
1. Open a Terminal window.
2. Type the full path to the CICS Explorer executable file, followed by -nl xx, where xx is the code for the language, as listed in Starting CICS Explorer in a national language. For example:
  /home/user/Desktop/zosexplorer/zosexplorer -nl ja
3. To start CICS Explorer in the national language that you specified, press Enter.
Use the following steps to edit the CICS Explorer zosexplorer.ini file.
1. Navigate to the zosexplorer folder where you downloaded the CICS Explorer.
2. Edit the zosexplorer.ini file and add the following two lines of text to the end of the file, where xx is the code for the language, as listed in Starting CICS Explorer in a national language.
```
-nl
 xx
```
  The text must be on two lines, as shown in the following example.
3. Save and close the file.
4. To start CICS Explorer in the national language that you specified, double-click the zosexplorer file.