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.

The following table lists the currently supported languages and the corresponding code that you use to specify each language. Most codes are two characters, but they can be longer. Codes are case sensitive.
Table 1. National languages that CICS Explorer supports
Language Code
Brazilian Portuguese br
English en
French fr
German de
Japanese ja
Korean ko
Simplified Chinese zh
Spanish es
Traditional Chinese zh_TW
You can start the stand-alone CICS Explorer in a supported national language in any of the following ways: These procedures are described in more detail in the following sections.

Using a shortcut (Windows) or Launcher (Linux) file

On a Windows system:
  1. Navigate to the folder where you downloaded the CICS Explorer and right-click the cicsexplorer.exe file.
  2. Click Create shortcut. The new shortcut is added to the folder.
  3. Right-click the shortcut and click Properties.
  4. In the Shortcut tab, place your cursor at the end of the Target field following the double quotation marks. Type -nl xx, where xx is the code for the language, as listed in Table 1.
    An example screen capture of a shortcut file.
  5. In the General tab, you can change the name of the shortcut to something memorable, for example CICS Explorer Japanese.
  6. Click OK to save the changes.
  7. To start CICS Explorer in the national language that you specified, double-click the new shortcut.
On a Linux system:
  1. Create an Application Launcher.
  2. In the Name field, enter a name for the Launcher, for example CICS Explorer Japanese.
  3. In the Command field, click Browse and navigate to the cicsexplorer file in the location where you downloaded the CICS Explorer.
  4. Place your cursor at the end of the Command field and type -nl xx, where xx is the code for the language, as listed in Table 1. Screen capture of a Launcher file.
  5. Click Close to save the Launcher.
  6. To start CICS Explorer in the national language that you specified, double-click the new Launcher.

Using a Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (Linux)

  1. Open a Command Prompt or Terminal window.
  2. Type the full path to the CICS Explorer executable file, followed by -nl xx, where xx is the code for the language, as listed in Table 1. The following example is for a Windows system:

    C:\Explorer\CICS_Explorer\cicsexplorer.exe -nl ja

    The following example is for a Linux system:

    /home/user/Desktop/CICS_Explorer/cicsexplorer -nl ja

  3. To start CICS Explorer in the national language that you specified, press Enter.

Editing the cicsexplorer.ini file

Note: If you use the previous methods to start CICS Explorer in a supported national language, you can still start CICS Explorer in the default language. To do this, double-click the file cicsexplorer.exe (cicsexplorer on Linux). However, if you start CICS Explorer in a supported national language by editing the cicsexplorer.ini file, you cannot start CICS Explorer in the default language unless you reverse the change.
  1. Navigate to the CICS_Explorer folder where you downloaded the CICS Explorer.
  2. Edit the cicsexplorer.ini file and add the following two lines of text to the end of the file: 
    -nl
 xx
    xx is the code for the language, as listed in Table 1. The text must be on two lines, as shown in the following example.
    A screen capture of a cicsexplorer.ini file showing the two additional lines: -nl and ja (for Japanese) at the end of the file.
  3. Save and close the file.
  4. To start CICS Explorer in the national language that you specified, double-click the cicsexplorer.exe file (cicsexplorer on Linux).
Parent topic: Tasks