When you have added the required TP definitions to the registry, you are able to perform inbound transaction routing from the host.
This test completes the configuration. To test your connection to the host ensure that:
- The communications server has an active link to the host.
- The host CICS region is running. In most installations this is normally the case, but sometimes you may need to ask your host system administrator to start the host CICS region that you are going to connect with. It can usually be tested by using a communications server 3270 applet and entering the VTAM ID of your host CICS region when the terminal has a connection to the host VTAM.
- You have restarted the region as described in the section
Starting the Local CICS Connection.
When the previous steps have been done:
- Start a communications server applet to the host VTAM, as described earlier, and connect to the host CICS region.
- When you have a session on the host CICS region, run the supplied transaction:
CRTE SYSID=localwhere local is the name of the connection that you defined earlier. With the supplied example values, it is:
CRTE SYSID=LU21
.
- You should now be able to use the SNA Server 3270 applet as if it was a terminal on your local CICS system. To test the connection, run the transaction
CENV supplied with the Enterprise Server CICS software. This should give you information about your local CICS system. When you have completed transaction routing, enter the
CANCEL command.
Note:
When transaction routing is active in one direction, you cannot then route back to your terminal. This is because when you attempt to route back, the original terminal-id is passed back and is rejected because it is not unique. All terminal-ids must be unique within a CICS region, both on the host and the local client.
