Quick Beginnings Personal Edition

Configuring Client-to-Server Communications Using the Client Configuration Assistant

To configure communications from a DB2 client to a server, the remote server must be configured to accept inbound client requests. By default, the server installation program automatically detects and configures most protocols on the server for inbound client connections. If you have added a new protocol to your network that is not detectable, or wish to modify any of the default settings, refer to the Installation and Configuration Supplement. If you are adding a host or AS/400 database, refer to the Configuring DB2 Connect to Host or AS/400 Communications Using the Client Configuration Assistant section in your DB2 Connect Quick Beginnings manual.

The information in this section describes how to use the Client Configuration Assistant (CCA) to configure your OS/2, Windows 9x, or Windows NT clients to access remote servers. To complete the steps in this section, you should be familiar with how to start the CCA, for more information, see Starting the Client Configuration Assistant.

With the CCA, you can:

• Configure database connections that applications can use.

• Update or delete existing configured database connections.

• Display the information for existing configured connections.

• Test a connection to a database.

• Enable or disable databases to be configured as CLI or ODBC data sources.

• Export client profiles, or import client and server profiles which contain information for the setup of a client.

• Update client configuration settings.

• Discover remote databases (if enabled).

• Bind user applications and utilities to databases.

• Change your server password.

The CCA provides three methods to set up a database connection to a server:

• Using a profile.

• Searching the network for databases.

• Manually entering database and communication protocol information for a server.
  

  When you add a database using this configuration method, the Client Configuration Assistant will generate a default node name for the server where the database resides.

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