Tasks
These tasks illustrate how you can set up and use the CICS Explorer® to manage your CICSplex.
- Working with CICS system connections
You can configure and change your CICS system connections. - 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 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 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 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 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 bundles
You can use bundles to deploy applications, events, policy, 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 events
The process of specifying business events has a natural workflow, from business manager to application analyst, application programmer, and IT architect. You use the Event binding editor to create an event binding that specifies the business events. The event binding specifies the events you want CICS to produce. You can use the CICS event binding editor to create, edit and deploy event bindings. - Working with platforms and applications
You can use the CICS Cloud perspective and the Cloud Explorer view to work with platforms and applications in CICS. - Working with policies
To create a policy you must define the rules, and package the policy in a CICS bundle. You can deploy the policy with a CICS platform or CICS application, or deploy it separately. You can define one or more policies in a CICS Bundle project. By packaging your policy in this way, you can deploy your policies as a single entity to CICS, making it easier to update and manage the policy in CICS. - 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. - Administering CICS Explorer
This information describes various administration tasks in CICS Explorer, for example, controlling access to a CICS Explorer function, getting or configuring the online help, changing the language, starting another instance of CICS Explorer, switching the workspace, and updating and installing software.
Parent topic: CICS Explorer User Guide
