CICS® Transaction Server Version 3 introduces a number of improvements
to the CICSPlex® SM Web User Interface. The new features are as follows:
- User favorites
- All WUI users now have the ability to save tabular and detail views
on an ad-hoc basis to an easily-accessible and editable menu of favorites.
This allows you to reach frequently used views with just one click. Administrators
have the additional authority to update the favorites of other users.
- User group profiles
- Administrators are now able to 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.
- Result set warning counts
- The WUI can now be tailored to issue warnings before it opens a view
that will generate large numbers of records. Following a warning you have
the opportunity to alter the filter values on the view in order to reduce
the number of results returned. This improves WUI performance by reducing
unnecessary waits.
- Filter confirmation
- The WUI view editor has been improved to enable you to include a filter
confirmation panel before a view opens when you are creating or updating views.
This means that when navigating to such a view, users will have the opportunity
to enter filter values regardless of the size of result set that will be returned.
- Dynamic selection lists
- The WUI now generates lists of potential values for various attributes
in input panels. This enhances the usability of the interface by allowing
you to select from a list of valid values, rather than having to remember
them.
- Improved screen design
- Several improvements have been made to maximize the use of screen space
in WUI views and menus:
- The use of screen space on detail views has been improved by providing
the ability to display the information in two columns rather than one. You
can design your own two-column detail views using the view editor.
- The amount of white space on tabular views has been reduced by removing
the Select All and Deselect All buttons,
replacing them with icons that reside in the Record heading of the table.
- You can now collapse filters in order to provide more screen space for
data. Collapsed filters can be expanded whenever necessary.
Sections previously part of the Web User Interface Guide have been moved
to more appropriate parts of the CICS library as follows:
- Setting up a CICSPlex SM Web User Interface server to CICS Transaction Server for z/OS® Installation Guide
- Problem determination to CICSPlex System Manager Problem Determination
- WUI messages to CICSPlex System Manager Operations Views Reference.
A new chapter has been added providing a description of the supplied Web
User Interface views and menus. See CICSPlex SM supplied views and menus.
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