The CICSPlex SM Web User Interface

The CICSPlex® SM Web User Interface (WUI) is a customizable, platform-independent interface for your web browser.

The Web User Interface is used:
  • By the CICSPlex SM operator, who uses it to monitor and control the resources of their CICS® systems.
  • By the system administrator, who uses the interface to define and maintain the CICSPlex SM configuration, and to specify BAS, WLM, RTA, and monitoring requirements.

You can link to the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface from any location that can launch a Web browser.

The server component of the Web User Interface runs on a dedicated CICSPlex SM local MAS connected to a CMAS at the same release level. 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.

The CICSPlex SM Web User Interface is supplied with a set of linked menus and views but can also be customized to reflect your business procedures and to suit the needs of individual users.

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.

All WUI views supplied with CICSPlex SM by IBM® are named EYUSTARTobject.viewtype where object is the name of the associated resource and viewtype describes the type of view.

Example: An example tabular view of the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface

Information about your enterprise is displayed in formatted displays called views. Figure 1 shows an example tabular view.

Figure 1. A tabular view
This figure shows an example of a tabular view. It is described in the following text.

Figure 1 is an example Active task view. The resource name associated with the Active task view is also displayed. Each resource is represented by a resource table.