You can launch the CICS Explorer in its own perspective (CICS SM) or as views within other perspectives (for example, the Enterprise Service Tools perspective). A tree view named CICSplex Explorer displays CICS region names. Individual resource views are displayed with header tabs (for example, Regions, Files, and Transactions). In the CICS SM perspective you can add other views from the Operations menu or from the menu that is available in other perspectives.
Defining a connection to a CICS system is a prerequisite to using the IBM CICS Explorer.
For more information about CICS Explorer, see IBM CICS Explorer User Guide