Changing the CICS Explorer workspace location
CICS Explorer® uses a local workspace folder to save its data and configuration files. By default, the workspace folder is stored in your user directory. You can change the location where CICS Explorer saves the workspace.
About this task
- CICS Explorer Version 5.3 or later: .zosexplorer
- CICS Explorer Version 5.2 and earlier: .cicsexplorer
- You want to start a new version of CICS Explorer but
do not want to upgrade your default workspace.
For some releases, when you upgrade to a new release of CICS Explorer, data stored in your existing workspaces is automatically migrated to the new data format when you use those workspaces with the new release. The workspaces will no longer work with previous releases of CICS Explorer.
If you start the new version of CICS Explorer with a different workspace location, the default workspace remains unchanged.
- You want to ensure that only the owning user can access the workspace.
The data and configuration files in the CICS Explorer workspace include connection information and user IDs. Therefore, you might want to change the workspace location from the default.
To change the workspace location when CICS Explorer is already started, see Switching workspaces.
To change the workspace location before you start CICS Explorer, one method is to create a new application launcher, Automator application, or application shortcut, as appropriate for your operating system, and modify the command or target path. To do this, use the following procedure.