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This RFE is satisfied by CICS TS 5.3 which is generally available from December 11th 2015.
CICS Explorer 5.3 provides the ability to customise views and perspectives and share them between users.
This RFE is satisfied by CICS TS 5.3 which was announced on October 5th 2015 with a planned general availability date of December 11th 2015.
This RFE is satisfied by CICS TS 5.3 which was announced on October 5th 2015 with a planned general availability date of December 11th 2015.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Transaction Processing
Product - CICS Transaction Server
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Transaction Processing
Product - CICS Transaction Server
I wrote a blog post about this: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/cicsdev/entry/extending_cics_explorer_creating_custom_perspectives?lang=en
It describes how to create perspectives using the same mechanism as we use within CICS Explorer to create them! This is the safest way to create and deploy perspectives to multiple users.
Passing on comments from Joe Winchester....
The location of the perspectives is in the workspace, which by default is on the local directory - in Windows 7 it is c:\users\{your user ID here}\.cicsexplorer - in Linux it is /home/{your userid here}/.cicsexplorer".. More information on how workspaces work is in the blog entry:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/JoeWinchester/entry/cics_explorer_workspaces_copying_locating_and_more5?lang=en
What this means is that when a user switches to a different PC then they have a different home or c:\ folder and the data is not shared.
One way that users solve this is to store their data not on a c:\ folder, but instead on a shared network drive. This could be z:\ and each PC maps to this folder - to point the CICS Explorer to use this location instead of the c:\ folder you will need to alter the cicsexplorer.ini or the desktop shortcut - this is covered in the blog entry link above.
Alternatively - you can import and export data between workspaces - using the Import and Export perspective wizards - this is also covered in the blog entry.
There is no way to allow the CICS explorer to be configured so that after a user signs on their view is restricted to just the tasks they are authorized to do. Security is provided by RACF (or other security manager) so a user cannot perform actions on CICS or see data they don't have authority.
The location of the perspectives is in the workspace, which by default is on the local directory - in Windows 7 it is c:\users\{your user ID here}\.cicsexplorer - in Linux it is /home/{your userid here}/.cicsexplorer".. More information on how workspaces work is in the blog entry:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/JoeWinchester/entry/cics_explorer_workspaces_copying_locating_and_more5?lang=en
What this means is that when a user switches to a different PC then they have a different home or c:\ folder and the data is not shared.
One way that users solve this is to store their data not on a c:\ folder, but instead on a shared network drive. This could be z:\ and each PC maps to this folder - to point the CICS Explorer to use this location instead of the c:\ folder you will need to alter the cicsexplorer.ini or the desktop shortcut - this is covered in the blog entry link above.
Alternatively - you can import and export data between workspaces - using the Import and Export perspective wizards - this is also covered in the blog entry.
There is no way to allow the CICS explorer to be configured so that after a user signs on their view is restricted to just the tasks they are authorized to do. Security is provided by RACF (or other security manager) so a user cannot perform actions on CICS or see data they don't have authority.
The location of the perspectives is in the workspace, which by default is on the local directory - in Windows 7 it is c:\users\{your user ID here}\.cicsexplorer - in Linux it is /home/{your userid here}/.cicsexplorer".. More information on how workspaces work is in the blog entry:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/JoeWinchester/entry/cics_explorer_workspaces_copying_locating_and_more5?lang=en
What this means is that when a user switches to a different PC then they have a different home or c:\ folder and the data is not shared.
One way that users solve this is to store their data not on a c:\ folder, but instead on a shared network drive. This could be z:\ and each PC maps to this folder - to point the CICS Explorer to use this location instead of the c:\ folder you will need to alter the cicsexplorer.ini or the desktop shortcut - this is covered in the blog entry link above.
Alternatively - you can import and export data between workspaces - using the Import and Export perspective wizards - this is also covered in the blog entry.
There is no way to allow the CICS explorer to be configured so that after a user signs on their view is restricted to just the tasks they are authorized to do. Security is provided by RACF (or other security manager) so a user cannot perform actions on CICS or see data they don't have authority.
CCB(China Construction Bank) raised exactly same requirement. They want to share perspective among a group of people. The operator's desktops are shared. They want to get same perspective after user logon no matter which desktop.