Starting an IMS Connect Extensions feed

To start an IMS Connect Extensions feed, you run a job that specifies a destination and which IMS Connect systems to use as the feed source.

About this task

The IMS Connect systems that you want to use as the feed source must be running in the same z/OS® logical partition (LPAR) as the feed job.

The feed job is a client of the IMS Connect Extensions publisher API. The feed job uses the publisher API to get IMS Connect events.

Procedure

  1. For each IMS Connect system that you want to use as the feed source, select the Activate Publisher API option.

    See Defining IMS Connect systems.

  2. Create and submit JCL to run a feed job.

    See IMS Connect Extensions feed JCL.

What to do next

Check the feed destination for data forwarded by the feed job.

You can display a list of publisher API clients, including feed jobs, in the IMS Connect Extensions ISPF dialog. See IMS Connect Extensions publisher API client list.

You can then use publisher API client list to display client details and to stop clients. The list identifies feed jobs using a concatenation of job name and job ID. See CEX7201I in the SYSPRINT output data set of the feed job.