Required and Optional Entry Fields for IMS Server Setup

Group Box | Term | Description
Login Information | Server | A symbolic or dotted numeric TCP/IP address, for example: MVS or 123.123.123.123
User ID | Your 1-8 character TSO logon ID. All characters convert from lowercase to uppercase.
Password | Your 1-8 character TSO password. All characters convert from lowercase to uppercase.
Server Type | CICS |
Started Task | Select Started Task
Product | ADABAS |
IMS | Select IMS
VSAM |
Load Library Parameters | Load Library DSN | Link into Target Load Library. A fully-qualified partitioned data set name into which the CONNX Started Task object code is linked. This can be a new partitioned data set, or an existing PDS. In the current example, the target load library is CONNX.STASK.LOAD.
SMS | Select this if your system uses SMS. If selected, do not specify any VOLSER and UNIT.
VOLSER | The DASD volume serial on which the new CONNX load library is created. Specify a VOLSER and a UNIT to create the PDS on a specific volume.
UNIT | The DASD device type (3380, 3390, etc.) of the above VOLSER.
IMS HLQ | A one- or multi-part high-level data set prefix, which is used to create the CONNX IMS data sets on the target host.
IMS Utility HLQ | A one- or multi-part high-level data set prefix, which is used by the IMS Library Integrity Utilities for z/OS. The output from these utilities are used to build the CDD. Note: This is an optional feature. If the IMS Library Integrity Utilities for z/OS are not installed, this parameter is not used.
CONNX Server Data Set | CONNX DSN HLQ | A one- or multi-part high-level data set prefix, which is used to create the CONNX installation sequential and partitioned data sets on the target host. In the current example, the installation prefix is CONNX.STASK. See the DSN Prefix Data Sets table for a description of the data sets created with this prefix.
VOLSER | Optional. The DASD volume serial on which the CONNX.STASK sequential and partitioned data sets are created.
UNIT | The DASD device type (3380, 3390, etc.) of the above VOLSER. Omit if the VOLSER field is blank.
IMS Interface | ODBA | Use the IMS on-line interface
DLI | Use the IMS batch interface
TCP/IP | HLQ | A one- or multi-part high-level data set prefix, which is used to create the file where the TCP/IP stack is stored.
Library | The name of the TCP/IP Library.