MainView interface options

MainView Explorer

MainView Explorer is a desktop GUI that lets you access MainView products through your web browser or by installing the interface as an application in a local directory. With MainView Explorer, you can build views from comprehensive menus and with the ease of a mouse click.

MainView Explorer offers the following advantages:

• Diversity of data views

  With the GUI, you can see your data in more diverse ways. MainView Explorer can display data in enhanced chart types, such as topology diagrams, histograms, and three-dimensional bar charts. These exclusive views efficiently illustrate the relationships between data, visually accelerating the communication and understanding of data and ideas.

  For example, Plex Topology displays provide detailed, hierarchical views of the relationships between the products and systems in the sysplex. At a glance, you can see which systems are active and running MainView products.

• Ease of use

  The graphical environment of MainView Explorer lets you format, arrange, and manage your data in ways that are unmatched in a standard ISPF session. With the GUI, you can:

  • Open as many as 30 tabs of different views at one time
  • Detach your view into a separate window that you can open, resize, and close
  • Move columns and fields by clicking and dragging them
  • Resize and sort columns of data with the click of a mouse
  • Export data by taking a snapshot of it for viewing offline
  • Import snapshots of data views back into MainView Explorer
  • Copy data views to the clipboard

  With the speed and simplicity of a mouse click, you can also perform the following actions:

  • Initiate searches for data
  • Initiate line actions against views
  • Initiate historical data views
  • Display, hide, and initiate changes to the filter masks
  • Control the refresh rate
  • Select multiple rows of data to perform actions such as exporting, printing, or producing charts

Also, by clicking the 3270 node in the Context tree, you can see your data in ISPF format. Conversely, you can save any ISPF screen in windows mode and import it into MainView Explorer, which treats the data as though it were created in the GUI.

Windows mode

Users who prefer an ISPF interface can use windows mode, displaying up to 20 windows at once. The data is organized into a tabular view, and you can split the screen both vertically and horizontally. Because you can format the data into a variety of configurations, you can create views for any situation that you encounter. You can save these views for future use or delete them when no longer needed. Windows mode offers experienced users a familiar ISPF environment and powerful features for building and formatting views.