Managing connections with File Manager® Plug-in

Establishing a connection to a File Manager® Server

The steps below detail how to establish a connection to a File Manager® server. If any errors are encountered, refer to the Connection Problem Diagnostics section for potential solutions.

  1. Show the Systems Information view if it isn't already visible
  2. Click Add System  at the top of the Systems Information view. This will show the a dialog for adding a Problem Determination Tools connection.
  3. Follow the instructions in the help of IBM Problem Determination Tools for z/OS Common Component for more information about managing connections.

You can also establish a connection using the Host Connections view.

  1. Show the Host Connections view by clicking Window > Show View > Other > expand the Host Connections folder > select Host Connections > OK.
  2. Click the Add button next to the Connections section.
  3. Follow the instructions in the help of IBM Problem Determination Tools for z/OS Common Component for more information about managing connections.

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Disconnecting from a File Manager® Server

The File Manager® plug-in operates by making one or more connections to each system in the Systems Information view on an as-needed basis. Each connection starts a new session under the user id specified when a password is provided, and, because it takes some time to establish a connection, connections are by default kept open indefinitely (or until an unrecoverable error occurs, in which case the offending connection is closed).

To manually close all active connection(s) to a system, right click on the system then click Close Connections from the pop-up menu. This will close all open connections and end the corresponding user sessions on the host. Any results of queries will still be visible, and, if you try to perform any operation which requires a connection (e.g. refreshing a query to get updated results), the plug-in will automatically create a new connection as usual.

To remove a system completely, right click on the system and click Remove from the pop-up menu. All connections to the system will be closed before the system is removed.

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