Starting CICS Explorer in a national language

By default, CICS Explorer® opens in the national language set for your operating system or the product in which CICS Explorer is embedded, provided that CICS Explorer supports that language. You can launch the stand-alone CICS Explorer in any supported language, regardless of the operating system language.

About this task

The following table lists the currently supported languages and the corresponding code that you use to specify each language. Most codes are two characters, but they can be longer. Codes are case sensitive.
Table 1. National languages that CICS Explorer supports
Language Code
Brazilian Portuguese pt_BR
English en
French fr
German de
Italian it
Japanese ja
Korean ko
Simplified Chinese zh
Spanish es
Traditional Chinese zh_TW
You can use the following methods, as appropriate for your operating system, to start the stand-alone CICS Explorer in a supported national language that you specify:
  • Linux: Create and use an application launcher.
  • OS X: Create and use an automator application.
  • Windows: Create and use a shortcut.
  • Use a command in a terminal or command prompt window.
  • Edit the CICS Explorer cicsexplorer.ini file.
For details, see the following topics.