Connecting CICS and DB2 for VSE

This section is common to all methods of starting QMF on VSE.

Establishing the connection between CICS and DB2 VSE sets up DB2 online support and allows users at CICS terminals to communicate with the DB2 VSE application server through CICS.

CIRB is usually run as part of the job that starts the CICS partition. To run CIRB manually:

1. Start the DB2 VSE application server in multiple user mode, according to instructions in DB2 Server for VSE System Administration.
2. Run the CICS CIRB transaction once for each CICS partition where QMF is installed. You can run the transaction in one of three ways:
   • By starting it from any CICS terminal
   • By starting it from the VSE console
   • Automatically when CICS comes up, if you make the appropriate changes in the CICS startup facilities