Changing products and contexts

This step shows how to switch between the products that work with MainView VistaPoint. Although VistaPoint has automatic hyperlinks that switch between views, you need to know how to switch to the views of the other four BMC products that work together with VistaPoint. This is particularly important when you shift back and forth between products to diagnose workload problems that use z/OS, CICS, Db2, and IMS resources together to complete a transaction.

The following figure shows the possible links between the products that work with VistaPoint. This step shows how to move between products to see their views:

Links between VistaPoint and Other Products

In addition, this step explains how to set the context of a view. A context is a frame of reference that defines the targets whose data appears in a view. Setting a context allows you to filter out unwanted data from your views.

There are three section in this step. The first section shows how to use the Plex Manager facility to shift between products. The second section explains how to use the SET and CONtext commands. The third section shows how to list your site's SSI contexts and switch to an SSI view from PLEX MANAGER.

This section contains the following topics: