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Overview of manual customization tasks


This topic lists the manual customization tasks that you can complete to customize your 

MainView

 environment to best suit your needs. Manual customization is time-consuming but provides the greatest flexibility.

For each manual customization task that you can perform, the following table indicates whether the task is required or optional.

Task

Required or optional?

Required

Optional

Optional

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT or MainView SRM

Required

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Optional

Optional

Required

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT
  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Optional, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Required

Optional, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Optional, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Optional, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Optional, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Required, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT

Optional, except not applicable to MainView FOCAL POINT or MainView Transaction Analyzer

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • CMF MONITOR
  • MainView for z/OS
  • MainView for Unix System Services
  • MainView SYSPROG Services
  • MainView VistaPoint
  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for IP
  • MainView for Linux - Servers
  • MainView for VTAM
  • MainView for WebSphere Application Server
  • MainView for MQ

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • CMF MONITOR
  • MainView for z/OS
  • MainView for Unix System Services
  • MainView SYSPROG Services
  • MainView VistaPoint

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • CMF MONITOR
  • MainView for z/OS
  • MainView for Unix System Services
  • MainView SYSPROG Services
  • MainView VistaPoint

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT
  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT
  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT
  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT
  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Optional for MainView AutoOPERATOR, but not applicable to other products

Required for MainView AutoOPERATOR, but not applicable to other products

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT
  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Required for the MainView AutoOPERATOR for CICS option and for MainView for CICS, but not applicable to other products

Optional for MainView AutoOPERATOR, but not applicable to other products

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT
  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ
  • MainView Alarm Management

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT
  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Optional

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView FOCAL POINT
  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Optional for MainView AutoOPERATOR, but not applicable to other products

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView AutoOPERATOR
  • MainView for CICS
  • MainView for DB2
  • MainView for DBCTL
  • MainView for IMS Offline
  • MainView for IMS Online
  • MainView for MQ

Optional

Optional for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • CMF MONITOR
  • MainView for z/OS
  • MainView for Unix System Services
  • MainView SYSPROG Services
  • MainView VistaPoint

Customize MainView Alternate Access, which includes creating TAS and LAS initialization parameters and startup procedures.

See Using-MainView-Alternative-Access.

Optional

Set up one or more product-specific PASs for products that do not use a BBI-SS or z/OS PAS.

See the product-specific customization guides.

Required for the following products, but not applicable to others:

  • MainView for IP
  • MainView for Linux - Servers
  • MainView for VTAM
  • MainView for WebSphere Application Server
  • MainView SRM
  • MainView Transaction Analyzer

Implement AutoRule

AutoRule is an optional event-management utility. You can use this utility to create and maintain MainView AutoOPERATOR Rule Sets, which are built by using supplied knowledge bases, input from system MPF lists, and other existing rules.

See MainView AutoOPERATOR Customization Guide.

Optional for MainView AutoOPERATOR, but not applicable to other products

Implement security

See the Managing-security-for-MainView-products.

Optional

Customize your product

See the product-specific customization guides.

Optional

 

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