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

To create and save a connection:
- Open the Connections window using Window>Preferences,
expand CICS Explorer and select Connections.
- Select your Connection Type from the menu.
- Enter the name you want to use for this connection set up.
- Enter the Host name, 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 Database name. If you do not know the database name,
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 table below.
- For example, for DB27 look in the job DG27MSTR joblog for the
details before the message #DG27 DSNYASCP 'START DB2'
NORMAL COMPLETION.
- Click Apply, you are prompted to enter
your password and you have the option to save your password.
- Click Connect to test the connection.
- If you want to create and save another connection you must click New first
and give the new connection a unique name in the Name: field,
and work through the previous steps.
Connections |
Joblog information |
Joblog information |
Database name |
LOCATION |
DSN810P2 |
|
LU |
GBIBMIYA.IYCRZDB8 |
|
GERICLU |
NONE |
Server address |
DOMAIN |
dsn810p2.plex2.hursley.ibm.com |
Use port |
TCPPORT |
48100 |
|
RESPORT |
58102 |