The CICSPlex® SM Web User Interface (WUI) offers an easy-to-use interface that
you can use to carry out all of the operational and administrative tasks necessary
to monitor and control CICS® resources. You can link to the Web User Interface
from any location that can launch a Web browser.
The WUI is supplied with a set of linked menus and views to facilitate
all your system management tasks. See CICSPlex SM supplied views and menus for guidance
on navigating around the supplied menus views.
You can also customize the WUI to reflect your business procedures and
to suit the needs of individual users.
The CICSPlex SM Web User Interface allows you to:
- Create clear, uncluttered menus and displays (called views), that present only the information that you wish the user to see.
- Structure your data in a task-oriented way. You can:
- Organize the user interface by resource category, by user task, or by
application.
- Define the links between views.
- Define the buttons that will appear on a display and what they will do.
- Customize the layout of data. You can:
- Have as many views of the same object as you like, each one showing a
different selection of data depending on the user task.
- If you have a Java-enabled browser, you can use graphical presentations
of your data: you can have either a bar gauge that shows, for example, the
number of tasks active in a CICS region, or a warning light that can be
configured to change color or flash, depending on the threshold values you
define for the field.
- Customize the panels to your business needs. You can:
- Use terminology appropriate to your business.
- Use your national language for annotations and customized help.
- Limit the data that is displayed using filters, so that users see only
the data relevant to their task.
- Include information for the user's guidance, for example, contact names
and telephone numbers.
- Define text that is written on action buttons.
- For each menu choice, add explanatory text to help the user in the task.
- For each view, provide buttons that accomplish the task, for example,
a shutdown button on a CICS regions view.
Assign views to a set of favorites for quick and easy access.
This allows you to reach frequently used views with just one click. Administrators
have the additional authority to update the favorites of other users.
- Present the data the users want to see in order to complete a task. You
can:
Create profiles for groups of users. These profiles contain
information such as default context, scope, CMAS context, menu and result
set warning count. In this way administrators can configure the WUI in different
ways to suit different groups of users in order to present an interface that
is more tailored to individual needs.
- Display only the information you want the user to see.
- Control what information can be amended, and where and how these amendments
are made. For example, you can make sure that the user has to confirm that
an operation is required, or that data has to be changed. You can restrict
entry fields to display-only or to preset values.
- Add safety by providing a confirmation panel asking the user to confirm
that an action is to be performed.
Set the WUI to issue warnings before it opens a view that
will generate large numbers of records. This improves performance by reducing
unnecessary waits.
- Develop menus that guide the user through a task. For each of the tasks
being performed in your enterprise, you know which CICSPlex SM objects are involved
in the task, and so you can create a menu for the task that contains those
objects. In this way, you can create menus that reflect your business procedures.
- Provide your own customized help information for each view and menu in
your national language. For example, you could describe the task to be performed,
or provide contact names and telephone numbers that are specific to your location.
The help documents may be located on the CICS system that you have selected to act
as your Web User Interface server, or each menu and view could be linked to
an existing Web-based procedures manual on an external server.
Protect the view editor, user editor and specific menus,
views and help panels from unauthorized access.
The view editor is an on-line, web-based tool that leads you step-by-step
through the process of creating and previewing your views and menus without
requiring any knowledge of HTML. You can design views and menus from scratch
or start with one of the existing views. The view editor also allows you to
See Customizing menus and views for guidance on using the view editor.
The WUI incorporates security features enabling you to restrict use of
the view editor to nominated users.
This feature enables administrators to create profiles for groups of WUI
users. What individual users see and do when they log on to the WUI can be
controlled by the user group profile to which they belong enabling the WUI
to be tailored to the needs of various groups of users. You can, for example,
use the view editor to create a new WUI menu containing only operations views
and make this the default menu for a group of users. This would provide a
simplified operational WUI for users who only need to carry out this kind
of task.
The Web User Interface incorporates security features enabling you to restrict
use of the user editor to nominated users.
The CICSPlex SM Web User Interface provides national language support for
the following languages:
- Japanese
- Simplified Chinese
- US English
An example of an interactive procedure may consist of a menu that contains
the steps in the procedure to shut down a target region in an active workload:
- View the active target region for a workload.
From this view, select
a target region and quiesce it.
- View affinities for the selected workload.
Check that there are no active
affinities that will be affected by shutting down the target region.
- View active tasks in the region.
Check active tasks in the target region.
- View CICS target regions.
Shut down the target region.
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