Connecting CICS to DBCTL

You can connect CICS to DBCTL by:

  1. Typing CDBC CONnect [SUFFIX(xx)], or
  2. Typing ‘1’ in the Option Selection field indicated by ==>. You can also specify a startup table suffix in the Startup Table Suffix field. If you leave this field blank you get the existing suffix, if one exists.

You should get the following message:

   DFHDB8207D DBCTL Connection requested. Press PF5
       to confirm.

If you want to proceed with the CICS-DBCTL connection, press PF5 as requested on the display. The "status" line of the display is then updated. (You can find out the current status of the connection at any time by pressing PF2, which refreshes the display.)

This display also shows you the application identifier of the CICS system (in this case, DBDCCICS), and the identifier of the DBCTL system to which CICS is connected. The DBCTL identifier is available only when the connection has been made. You can also see the suffix of the startup table for this connection.

The following display shows you the effect of asking for option 1:

Figure 14. CDBC transaction: option 1 screen
 CDBC                CICS-DBCTL CONNECTION/DISCONNECTION                  93.259
                                                                        13:33:59

           Select one of the following:

                1 Connection
                2 ORDERLY disconnection
                3 IMMEDIATE disconnection


           Option Selection     ==> 1
           Startup Table Suffix ==> 00
           DBCTL ID Override    ==>

   DFHDB8207D Connection to DBCTL requested. Press PF5 to confirm.

   Status of the Interface: DFHDB8290I DBCTL not connected to CICS.
               CICS APPLID: IYAHZCD2
                  DBCTL ID:
      Startup Table Suffix:


 PF1 = Help   2 = Refresh   3 = End

Related tasks
CDBC--database control menu
Disconnecting CICS from DBCTL
Using the HELP panel
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