Tasks

These tasks illustrate how you can set up and use the CICS Explorer® to manage your CICSplex.

Disabling function by using Eclipse Capabilities
When CICS Explorer first starts, all functional components are available to use by default. However, you can use the Eclipse Capabilities function to disable or enable components, and so limit the function available to use.
Getting help
Use the online help system to browse, search, and print system documentation. The help system also provides a context-sensitive help that gives an overview of the resource with which you are working, and a text search capability for finding the information you need by keyword. You can also broaden the search scope to include external sources of information. The help is displayed either in a Help view in the workbench, in a separate Help Contents window, or in an external browser window.
Integrating other help documentation in the CICS Explorer
You can enhance the CICS Explorer help by integrating other documentation, such as locally written operating processes and procedures, or documentation from another source, such as the CICS information center.
Managing workloads
You can use CICS Explorer for some aspects of CICSPlex® SM workload management. Use the WLM operation views and editors to show details of active workloads, including target regions, transaction groups, and affinities. Use the WLM specification view and editor to create and manage WLM specifications.
Starting CICS Explorer in a national language
By default, CICS Explorer opens in the national language set for your operating system or the product in which CICS Explorer is embedded, provided that CICS Explorer supports that language. You can launch the stand-alone CICS Explorer in any supported language, regardless of the operating system language.
Starting multiple instances of CICS Explorer
You can have more than one instance of CICS Explorer running at the same time. Each instance must have its own workspace.
Switching workspaces
CICS Explorer uses a local workspace to save its data and configuration files. You might have more than one workspace, each containing a different configuration of CICS Explorer. You can switch workspaces at any time.
Updating and installing software
Using the IBM z/OS Management Facility
Working with platforms, applications, and policies
You can use the CICS Cloud perspective and the Cloud Explorer view to work with platforms, applications, and policies in CICS.
Working with bundles
You can use bundles to deploy applications, events, and Atom feeds to your CICS systems. CICS bundles are a unit of deployment for CICS resources that you want to manage together in a CICS region. Management bundles group related CICS bundles together for deployment and management in a CICSplex. Management bundles are installed in a CMAS, and the associated CICS bundles are installed in the CICS regions across the targeted CICSplex (or platform). You can create management bundles for an application or a platform.
Working with Atom feeds
CICS can serve Atom feeds to web clients. The Atom feeds consist of data that is supplied by CICS resources or application programs. When you expose a CICS resource or application program as an Atom feed or collection, users can read and update the data by making HTTP requests from external client applications, such as feed readers or Web mashup applications.
Working with editors
You can edit or browse resources using the CICS Explorer resource editors. These topics explain the layout of resource editors and how to use them.
Working with data sets
Working with perspectives
You can decide how you want to lay out the views in the CICS Explorer and save the layout as a new perspective. These tasks explain how to work with perspectives to meet your operational requirements.
Working with resources
These example tasks illustrate how you can manage resources using the CICS Explorer. You must be connected to a CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® version 4 or later to edit or perform actions against resources. CICS and CICSPlex SM resources are displayed in resource views. Each resource view displays a single type of resource, for example the File view displays only file resources and the Program Definition view displays only program definition resources.
Working with system connections
Working with views
The CICS Explorer displays resource information in views. You can decide on the size and position of the views, and what information to show in them. These tasks explain how to work with the views to meet your operational requirements.
Working with z/OS Unix files

Parent topic: CICS Explorer User Guide