The CICSPlex SM Web User Interface is a customizable, platform-independent interface for your web browser.
The CICSPlex SM Web User Interface offers an easy-to-use interface that you can use to carry out all of the operational tasks necessary to monitor and control CICS resources. You can also carry out certain administrative tasks allowing you to create, update and remove CICSPlex SM resources. You can link to the Web User Interface from any location that can launch a Web browser.
The Web User Interface is supplied with a set of linked menus and views but is designed to be customized to reflect your business procedures and to suit the needs of individual users. You can, in effect, use the Web User Interface menu and view facilities to create your own on-line procedures manual.
You can create clear, uncluttered displays, called views, that present only the information you wish the user to see. The types of view are:
You can develop menus that will 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 therefore you can create a menu for the task that contains those objects. In this way you can create menus that reflect your business procedures.
You can provide your own, customized help information for each view, 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 Web User Interface server, or each menu and view could be linked to an existing Web-based procedures manual on an external server.
You can link to the Web User Interface from any location that can launch a Web browser, for example, from your Web-based procedures manual.
The CICSPlex SM Web User Interface allows you to:
All 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. Users can work with their favorites using the Web User Interface Favorites editor.
All the customization of the interface is achieved using the Web User Interface View editor. The View Editor is an online, Web-based tool that leads you step-by-step through the process of creating your views, and enables you to display previews of your views. The use of the View Editor can be restricted to nominated users. You need no knowledge of HTML to use the View Editor.
The Web User Interface User editor 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 use of the User Editor can be restricted to nominated users.
For details of the Web User Interface facilities, see the CICSPlex SM Web User Interface Guide.