Action buttons

Action buttons allow you to operate on resources and are available on tabular views and detail views.

All action buttons except the create action button operate on those objects on a view selected by the user. For example, on a CICS® region tabular view, selecting one or more CICS regions for shutdown and selecting the Shutdown action button would shut down all of the selected regions. On a detail view, the action affects only the managed object displayed in the view. For example, to allow a user to enable or disable a file resource, you could create a detail view with the file attribute FILESTATUS, and the attribute CVDA values of ENABLED and DISABLED displayed in a selection list. The user could select the value required, and select a SET action button. The action button is labeled Set, by default, but you can customize the label to display any text, possibly in your national language.

The create action is not related to objects selected on a view. When present on a view, the create action is always available, and functions even on views that present no data.