When you launch the CICS Explorer™,
by default it displays in the same language as your operating system
as long as the language is one of the languages supported by CICS Explorer.
Currently supported languages are English (en), Japanese (ja), and
Simplified Chinese (zh). You can launch the CICS Explorer in
any of the supported languages independent of the operating system
language.
There are three ways that you can launch the CICS Explorer in one
of the supported national languages:
- From a Shortcut (Windows) or Launcher (Linux) file.
- From a Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (Linux).
- By editing the CICS Explorer cicsexplorer.ini file.
The following procedures describe how to launch CICS Explorer
in a different language.
Using a Shortcut (Windows) or Launcher (Linux) file
On
a Windows system:- Navigate to the folder where you downloaded the CICS Explorer
and right-click the cicsexplorer.exe file.
- Click Create Shortcut. The new Shortcut
is added to the folder.
- Right-click the Shortcut and click Properties.
- In the Shortcut tab place your cursor at
the end of the Target field following the double
quotation marks. Type -nl xx, where xx is
the two character code for the language: ja for
Japanese, zh for Traditional Chinese, and en
for English. An example screen capture is shown later in this section.
- In the General tab you can change the name
of the Shortcut to something memorable, for example CICS
Explorer Japanese.
- Click OK to save the changes. Double-click
the Shortcut to launch CICS Explorer in the national language.

On
a Linux system:- Create an Application Launcher
- In the Name field enter a name for the
Launcher, for example CICS Explorer Japanese.
- In the Command field, click Browse and
navigate to the cicsexplorer file in the location
where you downloaded the CICS Explorer.
- Place your cursor at the end of the Command field
and type -nl xx, where xx is
the two character code for the language: ja for
Japanese, zh for Traditional Chinese, and en
for English. An example screen capture is shown later in this section.
- Click Close to save the Launcher. Double-click
the Launcher to launch CICS Explorer in the national language.

Using a Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (Linux)
- Open a Command Prompt or Terminal window.
- Enter the full path to the CICS Explorer executable file followed
by -nl xx, where xx is
the two character code for the language: ja for
Japanese, zh for Traditional Chinese, and en
for English. For example, on a Windows system you might have C:\Explorer\CICS_Explorer\cicsexplorer.exe
-nl ja and on a Linux system /home/user/Desktop/CICS_Explorer/cicsexplorer
-nl ja
- Press Enter to launch the CICS Explorer
in the national language.
Editing the cicsexplorer.ini file.
Important: With the previous two methods, you can always launch
the CICS Explorer in the default language by double-clicking the file cicsexplorer.exe (cicsexplorer on Linux®). If you choose to edit
the cicsexplorer.ini file to run a national language,
you must reverse the change to launch CICS Explorer in the default
language.
- Navigate to the CICS_Explorer folder where
you downloaded the CICS Explorer.
- Edit the cicsexplorer.ini file and add the
following two lines of text to the end of the file: -nl and XX,
where xx is the two character code for the
language: ja for Japanese, zh for
Traditional Chinese, and en for English. It
is important that the text is on two lines as shown in the screen
capture later in this section.
- Save and close the file. When you next double-click the cicsexplorer.exe file
(cicsexplorer on Linux),
CICS Explorer launches in the national language.