Adding a Client Connection

You can use client connections to access a queue manager on a machine where a PathWAI Editor for Messages server (or agent) is not installed, not running, or not supported. For example, for the current version of the Editor, the only way to access WebSphere MQ on the OS/390 is to use a client connection.

Adding a client connection does not create a connection or a channel, it simply creates an entry in the Console tree for an existing connection. In order to use the connection:

Once you have created the entry in the tree, you can click it to connect to the specified queue manager and use PathWAI Editor just as you would with a local queue manager.

Once a client connection entry is added, it is accessible to all users.

To add a client connection:

  1. Open the Client Connection node of the Console tree (if necessary) and click Add New Client.

    The New Client Connection dialog appears.

  2. Type in the following information:

    Queue Manager Name

    The name of the local queue manager to which the Editor can request connection.

    Host

    The name of the host on which the queue manager resides

    Channel Name

    The name of the SRVCONN channel

    Port

     

    The port number of the local queue manager listener

    CCSID

    The CCSID used to make the client connection. This parameter is optional. If no CCSID is specified, the default of 819 is used.

  3. Click Other Properties to specify additional properties as defined in the MQEnvironment class.

  4. Click Create to create the new connection entry and close the dialog, or Cancel to close the dialog without creating the entry.

The Editor creates a new entry for the connection using the name of the remote queue manager. Click the beside the entry to see the host, channel name, and port.