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Using MainView Explorer for the first time

MainView Explorer runs in your web browser, so it is simple to access, and any necessary software installation or updates are performed automatically.

If you are already familiar with MainView Explorer, skip this section and see Viewing-chart-configurations.

Before you begin

Ask your system administrator for the URL for MainView Explorer on the mainframe system that you would normally use to access MainView for DB2.

The MainView Explorer data server must be active and connected to the CAS in that system.

The URL format is: http://system:port/

To begin using MainView Explorer

  1. Open a web browser and enter the URL.

  2. After a security prompt, a logon dialog box is displayed.

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  3. Enter your TSO user ID and password.(Logging on to MainView Explorer does not log you in to a TSO session, and your TSO session can be active concurrently).

  4. Review the template for the user data sets and add a prefix if necessary. If you would like to customize charts and configurations, you will need a BBCDEF data set.The MainView Explorer window is displayed.

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    The navigation frame on the left contains a context tree and a product tree. The frame on the right shows the systems that you can access.

  5. Click on the Product tab at the top of the navigation frame.
  6. Expand the MVDB2 node and the system name ( SJSE in this example) to see a list of individual Db2s per system and any defined SSI contexts.

  7. Right-click on one Db2 and select Set context.The product tree for MVDB2 is displayed.

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    The view folders in the product tree provide view access by area, similar to the MAIN view in 3270 mode.

  8. Expand the BFRPOOL node and double-click the BFRPLD view.The view opens in a tab.

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  9. Right-click the BFRPLD tab to see various options, and then select the Close this view option to close the tab.
  10. Expand the EZExplorer node to access a navigation path that similar to easy menus in 3270 mode. This navigation path is recommended.

  11. Expand the Views node, the Single DB2 (EZDB2) node, and the Threads node to see a list of thread views.

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  12. Double-click any view to open it in a tab and then close that tab and collapse the Views node.

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