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Browsing Components

The Browse function provides read-only viewing access in a workbench editor to software components residing on the mainframe in a ChangeMan ZMF repository. Components locked by another user may nevertheless be browsed in read-only mode.

Components may be browsed in baseline libraries, package staging libraries, and promotion libraries.

Invoke the Browse function in the Serena perspective for the following object types:

To Browse Baseline components

  1. In the Serena Explorer navigation view, expand the ZMF Applications node, the folder for the desired application, the Baseline node, and the node for the library where the desired component resides.
  2. Right-click on the desired component to bring up its contextual menu, then select the Browse option. The component opens in an editor tab in the upper right pane of the perspective. See ZMF Operations on Baseline Library Components for more information.

To Browse Package components

  1. In the Serena Explorer navigation view, expand the ZMF Applications node, the folder for the desired application, and the Packages node.
  2. Find the package where the desired component resides, expand it, and expand the appropriate staging library within it to show a list of components.
  3. Right-click on the desired component to bring up its contextual menu, then select the Browse option. The component opens in an editor tab in the upper right pane of the perspective. See ZMF Operations on Package Components for more information.

To Browse Promotion components

  1. In the Serena Explorer navigation view, expand the ZMF Applications node, the folder for the desired application, and the Promotion node.
  2. Find the promotion site where the desired component resides, expand it, and expand the appropriate promotion library within it to show a list of components. Right-click on the desired component to bring up its contextual menu, then select the Browse option. The component opens in an editor tab in the upper right pane of the perspective. See ZMF Operations on Promoted Components for more information.

You can also invoke the Browse function for the most recent baseline version and all staging versions of a package component in any perspective where the Staging Versions table view is displayed.

To Browse Components in a perspective with the Staging Versions table view displayed

  1. Under the Staging Versions tab in the bottom right pane of the perspective, click the checkbox for the component version you wish to browse and uncheck all other versions.
  2. Right-click on the table to bring up the contextual menu and select the Browse option. See Viewing the Component Staging Versions list.

Browsing a Component Listing

Developers may choose to save a compile listing or other printable reports for a package component in a ZMF repository LST library on the mainframe. Saved listings may be browsed in a workbench editor directly by navigating to the listing member and using the component Browse function.

However, if you are working with a component source member, you do not need to navigate away from it to see its listing. Instead, you can open the listing using the Browse Listing navigation shortcut. Browse Listing maps the member name of the current component to the LST library type, then opens the corresponding listing member (if it exists) in a separate tab using the listing editor.

The Browse Listing navigation shortcut is invoked in the Serena perspective from the Package source component contextual menu.

To invoke the Browse Listing function

  1. In the Serena Explorer navigation view, expand the ZMF Applications node, the node for the desired application, and the Packages node.
  2. In the package where the desired component resides, find the desired component in a like-source staging library — that is, a library defined to ZMF as like-source and identified with a library type qualifier such as SRC, CBL, PLI, or JAV.
  3. Right-click on the desired component to bring up its contextual menu, then select the Browse Listing option. If a listing member for that components exits in the LST library for the package, it opens in an editor tab in the upper right pane of the perspective.
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