The z/OS perspective

The default z/OS perspective contains a set of views to help you manage your system z artifacts. The active perspective name is displayed on a button in the shortcut bar The shortcut bar showing the active perspective name - z/OS . You must have an active FTP connection to view z/OS data.

The default z/OS perspective is shown in the following screen capture.

A picture of the default z/OS perspective

The default perspective contains three views that provide system z information: The Data Sets view, the Jobs view, and the z/OS Unix Files view. See the related links for more information about these views. The Console view provides a history of the actions you have performed, such as submitting a job, or changing and saving a file. The area in the center of the perspective is the editor area. When you edit a file the file contents are displayed in this area.

You can tailor the perspective by adding new views, removing existing views, moving views around or changing the size of views. When you close z/OS® Explorer, any changes you made to the perspective are saved, and next time z/OS Explorer starts, your tailored perspective is displayed.

You can restore the perspective to the last saved configuration at any time by clicking Window > Reset Perspective from the main workbench menu bar. You can reset the supplied perspectives to their default configuration using the Reset action in the Preferences Perspective page.

You can create and save multiple perspectives. For example, you might want to set up one perspective that only shows the administration views, and one perspective that only shows the operation views. For further information on using perspectives, see the related links.

Note: When you save a perspective, you save only the layout of the views and editors in the workbench. If you change the width of a column in a view, that change will be applied to that column in every perspective that contains the view. Any filter attributes you have set are retained when you switch to another perspective or view.