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.
Procedure
- Open the Connections pane. Click Window > Preferences,
expand CICS Explorer, and select Connections.
- From the Type drop-down list, select
your connection type.
- Enter the name you want to use for this connection.
- Enter the Host name and port number. By default, DB2 on z/OS® listens for connections on port 448.
- Select your relevant credentials form the Credentials list,
see Defining connection credentials for more information.
- 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.
- Click Apply, you are prompted to
enter your password and you have the option to save your password.
- 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:
- 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.