The Web User Interface

The CICSPlex SM Web User Interface (WUI) is an easy-to-use interface that you can use to carry out the operational and administrative tasks necessary to monitor and control CICS® resources. You can link to the WUI from any location that can launch a Web browser.

The WUI is accessed using standard Web browser software in contact with a dedicated CICS region acting as a WUI server. You can have more than one WUI server active; for example, you may have a requirement for different languages to be used or different systems available to different servers. The Web browser client contacts the web server by an HTTP request via the CICS Web Interface.

The WUI server runs as a CICSPlex® SM local MAS and communicates with the managed resources via the CMAS to which it is connected. This CMAS needs to manage all CICSplexes that the WUI server needs to access. This is because the WUI server acts as a CICSPlex SM API application. However, it is not necessary for the CMAS, to which the WUI connects, to be managing any of the MASs in these CICSplexes.

All the menu and view definitions are stored on a server repository. There is one repository for each WUI server. The menu and view definitions can be exported for backup purposes, for distributing definitions to other servers, and for transferring menus and views when you upgrade to a new product release.

Because a WUI server is defined as a MAS, it can be monitored using standard CICSPlex SM monitoring.