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
- On the workbench menu, click Window > Manage
Connections. The Host Connections view is displayed.
If your connections are preconfigured, you see the
connections under the categories in the view. If not, the categories
are empty. The following example screen shows the Host Connections
view with one connection in each category of IA Collector and Interdependency
Analyzer. Each connection is associated with a credential. The credential
is shown in brackets after the connection name.
- If the connection is already defined, as in the screen
image above, click on the connection name and click Connect.
- To create a new connection, select the CICS IA Collector connection type and click Add. The new connection dialog opens.
- Enter the name you want to use for this connection.
- Enter the Host name and port number.
- If this connection is secured using the SSL protocol, check Secure
connection (TLS/SSL)
- Enter the DB2 location and schema.
- To start the connection now, click Save and
Connect. Alternatively, click Save and Close to
save the connection details without connecting at this time. To start
the connection at a later time, select the connection from the list
in the Host Connections view and click Connect
- Optional: You can now choose to associate a
credential with the connection. Right-click the connection name and
hover over Set Credentials to show the credentials
available. Click the credential
that you want to use for the connection. See Defining connection credentials for more information. If you do not associate a credential with the connection
at this time, you will be prompted for the credential when you start
the connection.
What to do next
You can import connections from another user by clicking Load
Connections from File or URL in the toolbar of the Connections view.
You can export your
connections to save them for backup purposes or to share with other
users. In the toolbar of the Connections view,
click Export Connections to File and enter
a path and file name. The default file type is pref.