Accessing the product from a URL shortcut

One easy way to access MainView Transaction Analyzer is to create a URL shortcut to MainView Explorer by way of the BMC AMI Ops host server. The shortcut can take you to:

• The EZTA easy menu
• EZTA is the primary menu for MainView Transaction Analyzer.
• A specific view with search criteria that you supply
• If you regularly display the same view with certain search criteria, a shortcut can be a convenient way to access that view quickly.

Before you begin

Before you can create a shortcut, you need to know the following:

• IP address or name of the BMC AMI Ops host server
• Port number of the host server
• Name of a MainView Transaction Analyzer context
• (Optional) Name of a view and the appropriate search criteria

To create a shortcut to EZTA

1. Right-click on your desktop and select New>Shortcut.
2. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, enter a string as follows and click Next:

http://host:port/default.ehtml?link=transfer%20context%20mvta

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  • Replace host, port, and context with the appropriate values for your site. 
  • MVTA (or mvta) is a literal that identifies the MainView Transaction Analyzer product. 

  • The string %20 represents a space in HTTP.

    Warning

    Example

    http://bbcs:3940/default.ehtml?link=transfer%20bbcon%20mvta

3. Enter a name for the shortcut and click Finish.

When you click the shortcut, MainView Explorer asks you to log on with your TSO user ID and password. After you are logged on, the EZTA menu is displayed.

To create a shortcut to a specific view

Creating a shortcut to a specific MainView Transaction Analyzer view is similar to creating a shortcut to EZTA. The process of creating the shortcut is the same, but the URL string itself is slightly different.

1. Identify the view and search criteria that you want to specify.
2. Locate the 3-character token for each search term in Search term tokens.

3. Construct a URL string like the following example:
   http://host:port/default.ehtml?link=transfer%20context%20mvta%20view;

   • View is the name of a MainView Transaction Analyzer view.
   • SETMTA is the function that processes the search terms that follow.
   • Parm is one or more search terms to be passed with the view.

   Information

   Example

   To list CICS components that ended within the last 30 minutes and were flagged as exceptions, you would create a shortcut by using

   • CICS view
   • search terms of duration (dur) and exceptions only (xpt), as shown in Search term tokens

   The URL string would look like this example:

   http://host:port/default.ehtml?link=transfer%20context%20mvta%20cics;setmta%20dur=00:30:00%20xpt=Y

   This shortcut would display the CICS view with only those components that ended with exceptions (xpt=Y) within the last 30 minutes (dur=00:30:00).