Controlling CICS server connections

TCP/IP and SNA connections to CICS® servers, can be started or stopped using the cicscli command.

On Windows, you can start a connection to a CICS server after the IBM® CICS Transaction Gateway service has been started. On UNIX and Linux®, starting a connection to a CICS server will start the Client daemon if it is not already running. You do not have to start server connections explicitly. When a request is sent to a server, the server connection is automatically started, if it is not already established. If you change the configuration of a CICS server connection, you must stop and restart the connection.

To start a server connection to a server named servername, enter the following command:

cicscli -s=servername

To shut down the connection to a server named servername, allowing all outstanding units of work to first complete, enter the following command:

cicscli -x=servername

To shut down the connection to a server named servername immediately, without allowing all outstanding units of work to complete, enter the following command:

cicscli -i=servername

Shutting down a server connection does not shut down the Client daemon or connections to other servers.