Use the Establish Open Client Server Connection window to establish a connection with a specific server. The server can be an ASE, an Open Server application, or a separate CICS region on either the same or a different mainframe.
To establish a connection to the server
At the initialization window, press Enter to display the Establish Open Client Server Connection window.
At the bottom right of the window, the Temp Stg field
indicates whether or not you chose to scroll backwards, that is,
not to save results to temporary storage. (You set this parameter
on the previous window.)
To connect to a specific server, enter the requested values:
Server name – name of the server you want to access. This name must already be defined in the Connection Router Table.
Login name – your login ID for the specified server. This login ID is passed to the server.
Password – password you use to log in to the specified server. This password is passed to the server.
Net-Driver – type of network driver you use (IBMTCPIP or LU62).
Login Charset – character set with which to log in to the remote server. Default value are:
If the USEIBMUNICODE parameter in SYGWMCST is set to Y, the default character set is utf8.
If the USEIBMUNICODE parameter in SYGWMCST is set to N, the default character set is iso_1.
Display CCSID – CCSID to which query result sets should be converted.
When you press Enter, the isql utility establishes a connection with the named server and displays the Enter Open Client ISQL Commands window.
