Starting CICS Explorer in a national language: Windows

In the Windows operating system, you can start CICS Explorer® in a supported national language by creating and using a shortcut, using a command in a Command Prompt window, or editing the CICS Explorer cicsexplorer.ini file.

About this task

If you use a shortcut or a command in a Command Prompt window to start CICS Explorer in a specified national language, you can still start CICS Explorer in the default language. To do this, double-click the cicsexplorer.exe file.

However, if you edit the CICS Explorer cicsexplorer.ini file to start CICS Explorer in a specified national language, you cannot start CICS Explorer in the default language unless you edit the file and undo the change.

Use one of the methods in the following procedure to start CICS Explorer in the national language that you require.

Procedure