Configuring an IPIC connection in IBM z/OS Connect

Follow these steps to configure an IPIC connection to CICS® in your IBM® z/OS® Connect server.

Before you begin

Before you begin this task, ensure that a server instance has been set up, see Creating a z/OS Connect (OpenAPI 2) server.

About this task

Edit the server.xml file to add the CICS service provider feature, configure a CICS IPIC connection element and optionally define additional security elements.

Procedure

Update the server.xml file to use the cicsService-1.0 feature by adding the following configuration information in the <featureManager> section:
```
<featureManager>
    . . .
  <feature>zosconnect:cicsService-1.0</feature>  
</featureManager> 
```
Configure a zosconnect_cicsIpicConnection element in server.xml. The host and port attributes must be specified. For example:
```
<zosconnect_cicsIpicConnection id="cicsABC" host="192.0.2.0" port="1110"/>
```
For more information about the available configuration attributes and default values, see zosconnect_cicsIpicConnection.
If the CICS system has security initialized (SEC=YES is defined in the CICS SIT parameters), see Configuring security for an IPIC connection.