Defining a new dashboard

Defining a new dashboard means defining filter criteria for a subset of jobs, workstations, or both, in your environment, that you want to monitor from a mobile device or computer connected to a web browser. The filtered results are displayed in a dashboard from which you can drill down and continue to filter to retrieve more targeted results.

Before you begin

To define new dashboards, launch the Self-Service Dashboards app using a web browser:
Self-Service Dashboards web address
https://host_name:port_number/dwc/mobile
where, host_name and port_number are the host name and port number of the Dynamic Workload Console to which you are connecting.
Required role
Administrator, Mobile User
Note: If you define a dashboard to monitor jobs, workstations, or both on z/OS engines, you cannot define filter criteria. You can create a single dashboard that monitors all workstations and all jobs for the specified engines.

About this task

To define a new dashboard, perform the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Tap the Self-Service Dashboards section to launch the application.
  2. Tap Create to begin defining the new dashboard.
  3. Specify information about the dashboard, optionally associating a description to better identify it. Mandatory fields are marked by an asterisk.
  4. Optionally, tap Icon and select an icon that you can associate to the dashboard from the list of available icons.
    New dashboard page
  5. In Filter Criteria, define the criteria to be applied to jobs and workstations.
    1. Tap Job to specify filter criteria that determines the subsets of jobs in your environment to be displayed in your dashboard. The filter criteria includes one or more of the following: engine (if more than one engine is available), job stream name, workstation name where the job stream runs, job name, and workstation where the job runs. Add additional criteria such as, multiple engines, by clicking Add Filter.
      When you are finished specifying the filter criteria, tap Back.
    2. Tap Workstation to specify filter criteria that determines the subsets of workstations in your environment to be displayed in your dashboard. The filter criteria includes one or more of the following: engine (if more than one engine is available), and workstation name. Add additional criteria such as, multiple engines, by clicking Add Filter. The dashboard results are an aggregation of all filter criteria.
      When you are finished specifying the filter criteria, tap Back.
  6. Save the dashboard.
  7. On the Self-Service Dashboards page, tap Roles and the dashboard name to open the list of roles that can be associated to this dashboard. Select only the roles that you want to authorize to see and use this dashboard:
    New List of Dashboard Application Servies Hub
    If the new dashboard is not associated to any role, by default it is only available to users with the TWSWEBUIAdministrator role.

Results

The dashboard you created is displayed in the Self-Service Dashboards page that shows all the dashboards to which you have access.

What to do next

You can now tap the dashboard to display the results that correspond to the filter criteria defined in the dashboard for the engine connections you specified.