Creating a customized map object

You can create your own map objects for resource types to customize the map's hyperlinks. This process is in two-stages. First you create the map using the view editor, and then associate it with resources to make it accessible.

Before you begin

The view editor includes a number of panels to enable you to create and edit your own maps as shown in Figure 1.

Maps contain mostly standard elements that cannot be changed. The purpose of creating your own map objects is to customize the map's hyperlinks. On a supplied map, clicking one of the displayed resource names takes you to a detailed view of that resource definition. On a customized map object, you can change this behavior to link to any detailed view, including customized views, that relates to the same object type. For example, you can link from a CSYSDEF resource to any CSYSDEF-related view. However, you cannot link from a CSYSDEF resource to a PROGDEF-related view, for example.

Before you can create and edit maps, you must have update authority to the security profile that most closely matches the map object. A security profile of the form EYUWUI.wui_server_applid.MAP.mapname governs access to map objects in an external security manager.

You can import and export customized map definitions using the COVC transaction.

1. Open the view editor and click Maps to open the main Map Editor panel from which you can choose to create, edit, copy, or delete a map.
2. Click Create to open the Create Map panel.
3. Type in a name for your new map object.
   Map object names consist of letters and digits and have a maximum length of 16 characters.
4. Select the type of map you want to create from workload management (WLM), real-time analysis (RTA), business application services (BAS) or monitoring (MON). Choose one and click OK to continue.
   The Edit Hyperlinks panel opens, which shows the resource columns in your new map. The number of columns varies according to the type of map you are creating; BAS, WLM, and monitoring maps have five resource columns, RTA maps have six.
5. Select a column and click Edit to set its hyperlink.
   The Target view set panel opens.
6. Select the view set that includes the target view for the hyperlink, or enter the name of the view set, and then click OK.
7. This opens the Target View panel. This panel gives you three choices:
   • Select Default View name to link to the supplied view that is the default for the resource type.
   • Select Use an existing View and select a view from the list to link to an existing supplied or customized view.
   • Select Use a specified View and type in a view name to link to a new view that has not been created yet.
   Make your selection and click OK to continue. This takes you back to the Edit Hyperlinks panel. The hyperlink for the column you selected in step 7 is now set. You can now continue to set the other columns by repeating steps 5 to 7.
8. When you have finished setting the hyperlinks, click Save on the Edit Hyperlinks panel to save your new map screen in the data repository. Message EYUVE1030I confirms that the operation has been successful.