Administration Guide
The Client Configuration Assistant (CCA) is primarily a tool that contains
wizards to help set up clients to local or remote DB2 servers. However,
the tool can also be used to easily help configure DB2 Connect
servers.
The Client Configuration Assistant lets you maintain a list of databases to
which your applications can connect. It catalogs nodes and databases
while shielding you from the inherent complexities of these tasks.
From the Client Configuration Assistant you can perform the following
tasks:
- Add, modify, delete database connection entries.
- Test the connection to a selected database.
- Configure database manager configuration parameters.
- Configure CLI/ODBC settings.
- Bind DB2 utilities and other applications to a selected database.
- Import/export configuration information. This allows you to use the
existing configuration on a machine that was previously configured to
configure new machines.
- Change the password for the user ID that you use to connect to a selected
database.
The Client Configuration Assistant provides the following methods to assist
in adding new database connection entries:
- Use a profile. A profile can be exported from a previously
configured machine and used to configure new machines. Server profiles
can be exported from the Control Center, and client or server profiles can be
exported from the CCA.
- Search the network. The CCA can search the network for DB2 systems
which have an administration server running. A Search and Known (or
directed) Discovery mode is provided. Search Discovery mode is subject
to network configuration restrictions. (Typically network routers will
not allow a Search Discovery request to be transmitted.) Known
Discovery requires only a few pieces of information to find the server system
desired. Host or AS/400 systems that have been previously defined
on a gateway, can also be found.
- Manually configure a connection to a database. All information must
be provided, but a wizard is started to help make the task simpler.
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