Configuring a CICS IA system connection

Before you can view any information, you must establish a connection between the CICS® IA plug-in and your CICS system by providing details about the DB2® location settings. You must also enter your authentication requirements, user IDs and passwords in the Credentials view.

About this task

The CICS IA plug-in Collector places details about interactions between CICS programs and resources in a set of DB2 tables. To access these tables, you require a user ID and password that connects to the location of the DB2 database.

A screen shot of the CICS IA plug-in Preferences window that shows the Connections information, for the DB2 location which includes the Host Name (server address), TCP/IP Port Number and DB2 location. Authentication information that includes user ID and Password. DB2 Settings has a field to enter the Schema if required. A Connection button, Restore Defaults button and Apply button.

Procedure

  1. Open the Connections pane. Click Window > Preferences, expand CICS Explorer, and select Connections.
  2. From the Type drop-down list, select your connection type.
  3. Enter the name you want to use for this connection.
  4. Enter the Host name and port number. By default, DB2 on z/OS® listens for connections on port 448.
  5. Select your relevant credentials form the Credentials list, see Defining connection credentials for more information.
  6. Enter the DB2 location. If you do not know the location, run the job suffixed with MSTR and look in the joblog information for the details required to complete the CICS IA plug-in connection information, shown in the following table.
  7. Click Apply, you are prompted to enter your password and you have the option to save your password.
  8. Click Connect to test the connection. The dialog box on the bottom of the main CICS IA plug-in perspective displays the reason for a connection failure or that the connection details are valid:
    Connection failed information
    Connection OK information
  9. If you want to create another connection click New, give the new connection a unique name in the Name field, and complete the previous steps.