Configuring a CICS IA Collector connection
Before you can work with collectors, you must have an IA Collector connection configured. The CICS® IA® Collector places details about interactions between CICS programs and resources in a set of DB2® tables.
Before you begin
You can configure a CICS IA Collector connection for each group of CICS regions that you want to collect CICS IA data from. The connection is to a selected controlling region. This CICS region must support Atomservice resources (so must be at CICS TS Version 4.1 or later) and must have a CICS TS connection to the other regions that it wants to control.
Contact your system administrator for details of the collector connections that you want to use.
You require a suitable credential, that is, a set of information that you use to authenticate the connection to the interface to the CICS regions for which you want to collect data. For details about creating credentials, see Using shared connection definitions.
About this task
The following procedure describes how to configure a new CICS IA Collector connection.
Alternatively, you can load or import shared connection definitions from a central location, or connection definitions from another user. For details, see Using shared connection definitions.
Procedure
What to do next
You can export your connections to back them up or to share them with other users. Use the
Export Connections to File icon in the toolbar of the Host Connections view. For details, see Exporting connections.
You can set one connection in this connection category as the default so that this connection can be used for automatic connection when you start CICS Explorer®. See Connecting automatically at startup.