Before you can work with collectors you must have an IA
Collector connection configured. Contact your system administrator
for details of the collector connections that you want to use.
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 work with the collectors,
you must set up a collector connection.
Procedure
- Open the Connections pane. Click Window > Preferences,
expand CICS Explorer, and select Connections.
- From the Type drop-down list, select
the CICS IA Collector connection
type.
- Enter the name you want to use for this connection.
- Enter the Host name and port number.
- Select your relevant credentials form the Credentials list,
see Defining connection credentials for more information.
- 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 another connection click New,
give the new connection a unique name in the Name field,
and complete the previous steps.