Menus
The enhanced 3270 user interface contains a menu bar at the top of the screen. Any item in the menu bar can be selected by pressing the Enter key while the cursor is on the item. A pull-down menu will then appear showing additional menu items.
You can access the menus in three ways:
- Place your cursor on the menu item and press Enter.
- Select the menu item with your mouse if this method is enabled for your 3270 emulator session (usually a double click or a single click from a mouse button). For more information about enabling mouse selection, see Associating a mouse click with the Enter key.
- You can use fast path commands to select a menu item by entering an abbreviated command on the action line or command line. The letters that you enter in the abbreviated fast path command are listed under each menu. For example, you can enter the fast path command v.s as an alternative to selecting the menu option . Similarly, you can enter the fast path command e.p as an alternative to selecting the menu option .
The following menus are available:
- File
- The options that are enabled are context-sensitive. Some options might not be available either
because they are not available from the current workspace or because they are not available in this
version.
- N New
- This option is not available in this version.
- O Open
- Opens the Runtime Environment (Workspaces) workspace, which provides directory lists for the user workspace data set (UKANWENU DD) and the runtime environment workspace data set (RKANWENU DD). You can use this workspace for browsing and locating workspaces.
- S Save
- This option is not available in this version.
- A Save As
- Saves a copy of the current workspace. This option is available when viewing a workspace PDS member or an in-memory PDS member.
- P Print Screen
- Writes a copy of the current screen to SYSOUT1.
- X Exit/Logoff
- Exits the current interface session.
- Edit
- The Edit menu offers the following selections:
- S Situations
- Invokes the Situations Editor, which you use to create situations that monitor important conditions in your enterprise.
- O Objects
- Invokes the Object Group Editor, which you use to organize managed systems and situations into groups that you can reference in distribution lists.
- P Preferences
- Displays user profile information. For more information, see Customizing a user profile.
- W First Workspace
- Invokes the Customize your First Workspace Display, where you specify which system or subsystems to include on the status tree and select which views to include for each product tab.
- View
- The View menu offers the following selections:
- F Filters
- Displays a list of filterable items for the current workspace, if any are defined.
- T Thresholds
- Displays the Runtime Configuration workspace for viewing Threshold
definitions members. The workspace displays information for the RTE data sets that contain the
threshold definition members. Tip: Product-provided threshold definition members are named IBMSITE, CUASITE, or KppTHRESH, where pp is the two-digit product code identifier; for example, M5 for the OMEGAMON® for z/OS® product.
- A Alias Commands
- Displays a list of alias commands that you can type on the action line or command line to go directly to a workspace view.
- S Workspace Source (On Disk)
- Displays the contents of the RKANWENU PDS member used to create the current on-screen workspace.
- W Workspace Source (In-memory)
- Displays the in-memory, resolved (parsed) version of the RKANWENU PDS member for the current on-screen workspace.
- M Memory
- Invokes the Memory Display/Zap workspace, which is part of the OMEGAMON for z/OS product. Use this workspace to browse memory in target subsystems, such as CICS, IMS, and Db2.
- H History Configuration
- Use this option to configure historical data collection for an application.
- R History Refresh
- Use this option to refresh the historical data view. This option is available only when viewing history data.
- I History Timespan
- Use this option to select the time period to view for historical data.
- Q Last Query Performance
- Displays time measurements for the last workspace ENTER key cycle. You can also use the SHOWQUERY command to display this information.
- P Session Performance
- Displays SQL performance metrics for the entire enhanced 3270 user interface session. You can also use the PERF command to display this information.
- Tools
- The Tools menu offers the following options:
- I Trace (User Interface)
- Engages trace for the current session. You select the process that you want to enable trace on
from a pop-up menu. Important: Do not use this option except as directed by IBM® Software Support.
- A Trace (Address Space)
- Engages trace for the entire address space. You select the component that you want to enable
trace on from a pop-up menu. Warning: When you engage trace, the volume of messages that are written to the output log files increases (typically JES output). If trace is engaged for an extended period, the output can exceed site limits and cause an enhanced 3270 user interface address space termination.Important: Do not use this option except as directed by IBM Software Support.
- R Registry Refresh
- Refreshes the registry that lists all managed system names, managed system lists, and data retrieval agents.
- T Threshold Refresh
- Refreshes the threshold definitions from disk.
- U Active 3270 Users
- Displays a list of active users and details about their sessions.
- H Current Hub Information
- Displays information about your hub connection.
- P Products Installed in Hub
- Displays the products that are installed on the hub.
- S Switch Between Hubs
- Switches the hub to use for queries, if secondary hub support is in effect.
- D Discard the Secondary Hub
- Removes the secondary hub assignment for this session, with the option of updating the user's profile, if secondary hub support is in effect.
- E Runtime Environment
- Displays information about the Runtime Environment (RTE).
- G Global Timeout Control
- Displays the workspace query timeout value.
- V Internal Variables
- Displays a list of internal variables.
- O ODI (Object Definitions)
- Displays the list of products that are installed in the enhanced 3270 user interface. You can display the products, tables and column definitions that are defined in the Object Definition Interchange. When creating new workspaces, for example, this view shows you the actual table and column names to use in a QUERY statement.
- F SDA (Self-Describing Agents)
- Displays any self-describing agent (SDA) status information.
- Navigate
- Use the Navigate menu to navigate to different products. Products that
are available are shown in the color white. Products that are not available are shown in the color
blue. Products that are installed locally in the interface but are not available in the connected
hub monitoring server are shown in the color yellow.
- Z z/OS
- z/OS summary.
- C CICS
- CICS® summary.
- G CICS/TG
- CICS Transaction Gateway summary.
- I IMS
- IMS™ summary.
- D DB2
- Db2® summary.
- N Networks
- Network health summary.
- M MQ
- MQ summary.
- B Integration Bus
- Integration Bus summary.
- S Storage
- Storage summary.
- J JVM
- JVM summary.
- H Home
- First workspace.
- E Events Console
- Enterprise Status Tree.
- Help
- The Help menu displays help for the enhanced 3270 user interface. The following topics are covered:
- C Commands
- Help for commands and the command line.
- P PFKeys
- Help for the Program Function (PF) keys.
- I Icons
- Help for the enhanced 3270 user interface icons.
- N Navigation
- Help for navigating by using commands, PF keys, icons, and pull-down menu options.
- U Auto Update
- Help for the OMEGAMON Auto Update feature.
- R Refresh
- Help for different types of refreshes: History, Registry and Thresholds.
- S Screen Test
- Helps determine if the 3270 emulator in use can display the APF characters used by the interface.
- H Help Contents
- A tree displaying the help topics and available workspaces for the current enhanced 3270 user interface session.
- A About OMEGAMON
- A pop-up window that lists the following information for the current enhanced 3270 user interface session:
- enhanced 3270 user interface version and level
- User ID
- VTAM® applid
- Jobname
- LPAR ID
- Operating System
- Sysplex
- TCP/IP host and address
- Dashboard Edition (enabled or disabled)
- OMEGAMON monitoring product and component versions
- W Whats New
- Navigates to the Help and Workspace Directory and expands the New Features branch, which displays recent updates to the enhanced 3270 user interface.