Specifying what information the subscription set accesses

This task is part of the larger task of enabling groups to access their data and files. When you have completed these steps, return to Enabling groups to access their data and files.

To enable a group of mobile users to access data and files, you must associate the subscription set with replication subscriptions. The replication subscriptions should be the subscriptions that define tables and files as data sources available for replication.

For example, suppose a group of visiting nurses relies on a Palm OS application called vnurse.prc to perform their jobs. The vnurse.prc Palm OS application accesses patient and scheduling information in the PATIENTS and SCHEDULES tables, which reside on a source server. To enable the nurses to use the DB2 Everyplace Sync Server to replicate this data to their user devices, you must define two replication subscriptions:

• One subscription references both of the required tables (PATIENTS and SCHEDULES).
• The other subscription references the resource file for the Palm OS application (vnurse.prc).

After defining the subscriptions, associate the subscriptions with a subscription set and then assign that subscription set to the VNURSE group to enable the visiting nurses to replicate the data that they need. When the visiting nurses synchronize their data, they receive the latest copy of the resource file, as well as updates to the PATIENTS and SCHEDULES tables.

You can associate an unlimited number of subscriptions with a subscription set.

Procedure

To associate subscriptions with the subscription set:

1. Go to the Subscriptions page of the Create Subscription set notebook.
2. In the Available subscriptions list, select the subscription you want to assign to the subscription set. To select multiple subscriptions serially, hold down the Ctrl key while selecting; To select multiple subscriptions contiguously hold down the Shift key.
3. Click > to assign the selected subscriptions, or click >> to assign all available subscriptions at once. Assigned subscriptions are displayed in the Selected subscriptions list.

If no subscriptions are displayed in the Available subscriptions list, you will need to create a subscription. You can click Create to open the Create JDBC subscription, Create DataPropagator subscription notebook, Create File subscription notebook, or Create Custom subscription notebook now, or you can create a subscription later and associate a subscription set with it later.

Related concepts

• What is a subscription set?

Related tasks

• Using the Mobile Devices Administration Center
• Enabling groups to access their data and files
• Identifying the subscription set
• Making the subscription set available to a group