Step 20C: Create a New Initialization Member in DSIPARM

An initialization member is required by the Data Services Task (DST) to connect to the System Automation Info Broker and for the Broker to know on which Kafka topic the messages are sent. A sample of the initialization member is provided in the INGKINIT member of the SINGPARM library.

Procedure

Copy the sample member INGKINIT to your environment DSIPARM PDS and adapt the following parameters to your needs. .

Parameter Description Default
DEBUG Use DEBUG=ON to generate debug messages. OFF
PIPENAME Use PIPENAME to specify the pipe's full path. /tmp/inginfobroker.pipe
CCSID Use CCSID to specify the encoding of the data on the host. It's used to convert to UTF-8. CCSID=1047
PROCNAME Use PROCNAME to specify the procedure in PROCLIB used to start the Kafka Producer address space. INGEKPRC
HEARTBEAT Use HEARTBEAT to specify the heart beat interval in seconds. 60
TOPICSDF Use TOPICSDF to specify the topic name to be used for SDF events. IBM-SYSAUTO-SDF

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Step 20D: Set up the JCL Procedure and the Environment File