Before you can view any information, you must establish
a connection between the CICS® TG plug-in and your Gateway daemon by providing details of the Gateway
location, and statistics port. Authentication is not supported and
any values specified are ignored. You can create multiple connections,
however each connection must have a unique name.
Procedure
- Open the preferences window using Window > Preferences, expand CICS Explorer and select Connections to open the connections pane within the preferences
window.
- Enter the details of your connection and click Apply. The details are entered into the system and the Connection button is enabled.
- Click Connect to test the connection.
You are prompted to enter your password and you have the option to
save your password.The status bar at the bottom of the workbench displays
the connection status. See the Messages section in the CICS Explorer™ User Guide for more information
on messages.
- Click OK. If you want
to create and save another connection you must click New first and give the new connection a unique name in the Name field, and work through the previous steps.
Example
You can create multiple connections under the same type.
The connection names that you create are displayed in the CICS TG Explorer view. You can
see all your connections by name in the drop-down list in the Connections
pane.
You can also see the status
of all of your connections if you click the connection
status bar menu icon
in the lower-right
corner of the workbench window, as shown below.