CICS® DA uses two different protocols when connecting to host systems: HTTP for accessing the system spool and FTP for everything else. By default, CICS DA attempts to connect using the secure forms of the protocols, HTTPS and FTP over TLS. If the secure connections are not successful, the connections are re-attempted without security. You must configure the FTP and HTTP connections separately.
Before you begin
You must have at least one connection "credential" before you can configure a system connection. A credential is a repository for a user ID and password combination. See the topic Defining connection credentials in the CICS Explorer™ user Guide for further information.
Configuring an FTP connection
Option | Description |
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Type | The type of the connection. For an FTP connection this is System z - FTP. |
Name | The local name used to identify this connection. The name can be anything you choose and is used only to help you distinguish between different connections. |
Host name | The TCP/IP host name of your FTP server. |
Port number | The port used to access the server. For FTP this is always port 21 |
Credentials | Your credential for the system. If you do not yet have a credential defined for this connection you can click the Credentials hyperlink to open the Credentials page, and define a credential. |
Configuring an HTTP connection
Option | Description |
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Type | The type of the connection. For an HTTP connection this is CICS Deployment Assistant. |
Name | The local name used to identify this connection. The name can be anything you choose and is used only to help you distinguish between different connections. |
Host name | The TCP/IP host name of your HTTP server. |
Port number | The FTP port used to access the server. This is always port 21 |
Credentials | Your credential for the system. If you do not yet have a credential defined for this connection you can click the Credentials hyperlink to open the Credentials page, and define a credential. |
Spool access port | The port number to access your job output spool. |
z/OS® System ID | The 4 character System ID |
Install base | The set of qualifiers defining the location of the libraries containing the CICS DA host code. |
Job name prefix | The prefix that is used by CICS DA to generate the DA jobs. The prefix must be 7 characters or less. |
Job card | A template used to generate job cards. The template
does not include the job name because this is generated, using the
job name prefix, by CICS DA
when the job is submitted. You can use any valid parameters in the
template. Note: All CICS DA
jobs are short-running jobs.
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