Configuring a TCP/IP CICS Server definition

Use the CICS® Transaction Gateway configuration tool to configure a new TCP/IP CICS server definition, or edit the SERVER section of the configuration file directly.

To configure a new TCP/IP CICS Server definition using the Configuration Tool:
  1. Select New Server from the Options menu, or from the toolbar, or right click on the CICS Servers entry in the Navigation Panel.
  2. Select a server in the navigation panel to display the Server connection panel. The settings map to the parameters in a Server section of the configuration file.

    Multiple identical server definitions are not permitted in the configuration file of the CICS Transaction Gateway. The combination of fields that identify a TCP/IP server are Host name or IP address and Port.

    This ensures that every connection that the CICS server and the network protocol see is represented by a unique server definition in the configuration file. If you have existing Client applications that use different server names to send requests to the same CICS server, you need to write a user exit to redirect requests. This is demonstrated in sample user exits ecix2.c and epix2.c; for more information, see Sample programs.

  3. Set the values according to your installation.

To configure a TCP/IP server definition by editing the configuration file directly, see SERVER section of the configuration file.