Communications with DRDA servers (z/OS and i/OS)

There are some big shops which are running critical applications on DB2 on z/OS or i/OS. The reason to use these systems is that they are very reliable and provide unsurpassed scalability. Usually you need to connect and extract database from these systems. IBM provides a tool or an add-on named DB2 Connect for connecting to these systems. Next we'll show you how to catalog and establish connection to an i/OS DB2 database.

Getting ready

In the following recipe, we'll install DB2 Connect Server Edition product and establish a connection to a DB2 i/OS system and database.

How to do it...

After you have installed DB2 Connect, perform the following steps:

1. Launch Configuration Assistant from its installation home Configuration Assistant | Add Database Using Wizard…:

   

2. Select TCP/IP as the communication protocol.

   

3. Specify Host name and Service name:

   

4. Usually the database name in i/OS is identical to the host name:

   

5. Specify the instance; this will be used just...