Customizing through the CICSPlex SM WUI view editor

The CICSPlex® SM Web User Interface includes a set of views and menus that you can use either as supplied or as the basis from which to create your own customized views and menus. The CICSPlex SM Web User Interface (WUI) view editor is the tool for customizing your menus, views and map objects.

When you work with either menus or views, the supplied menus and view sets are listed in a selection box. You can select the one that you want to base your customized view on.

Note: You cannot save changes to the supplied view sets and menus. View set and menu names beginning with EYU are reserved for IBM use. You must copy the required supplied view set or menu then edit your copy.

All supplied views are named EYUSTARTobject, where object is a CICSPlex SM resource table name.

Accessing the view editor

To access the view editor, select View editor in the navigation frame. A view editor session is opened in a new window and you are presented with the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface Editor screen. You can have more than one view editor session running at any one time.

The navigation frame of the Web User Interface display contains a link to the view editor. However, if your CICSPlex SM Web User Interface server is running with security active, the view editor is restricted to nominated users. You will not see the link to the view editor unless you have the required authority.

You should leave the view editor by returning to the CICSPlex SM WUI Editor screen or by signing off.

Note:

If your web browser session times out, because the INACTIVETIMOUT period is reached, any changes not saved before the session being timed out are lost. For information about the INACTIVETIMEOUT Web User Interface server initialization parameter, see Web User Interface server initialization parameters.
This information uses supplied views to provide examples that show how the view editor can be used to edit views. However, you cannot save changes to the supplied views and menus. You must copy the required view set and edit your copy.
A view set, menu, or map object is locked whenever it is opened for edit. Changes are not committed until the view set or menu is finally saved or the edit is abandoned. While locked other users cannot edit the same view set or menu. Users may continue to use the view set or menu while it is being edited, in which case the original version of the view set or menu will be used until it is opened after the changes have been committed.

Using the view editor

To work with customized menus, select the Menus option. You have the options of creating a new menu, editing an existing menu, copying an existing menu, or deleting a menu.
To work with views, select the View sets option. This opens the View Set Editor screen. You have the options of creating a new view set, editing an existing view set, copying an existing view set, or deleting a view set. See Working with customized view sets.
To work with customized views, you select a view from the View Set Contents screen and click Edit. See Working with customized views.
Use the Tabular View Components screen to customize view components. See Working with view components.
You can use the view editor to create and edit customized map objects. See Enabling the map function on a customized view and Creating a customized map object.

The view editor provides buttons that allow you to commit or cancel updates.

Cancel: Cancel the operation represented by the screen and any changes made as part of the operation.
OK: Submit the changes and continue.
Finish: Return to the previous screen.
Save: Save the changes associated with a view set or menu in the Web User Interface server repository.
Abandon: Do not save the changes associated with a view set or menu in the Web User Interface server repository.

The Cancel and OK buttons appear together, as do the Save and Abandon buttons, on view editor panels.

Example tasks

Several typical tasks illustrate some of the customization facilities offered by the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface view editor. In all cases, the starting point is a supplied view set. The view editor guides you with additional on-screen instructions.