Creating servers

You can create servers using different methods:

• You can create a DCDirector server using DirectConnect Manager, the DCDirector utility, or by modifying the server configuration file.

• You can create a directed DirectConnect server using DirectConnect Manager or the AddServer utility.

• You can create a non-directed DirectConnect server only using the AddServer utility.

When you use DirectConnect Manager to create a directed DirectConnect server, it:

• Creates a new server directory, including the cfg and log directories.

• Populates the cfg directory with required configuration files for the server and the admin service, and for the Service Name Redirection (snrf) table. It also creates access service .cfg files.

To simplify the execution of ECDA on multiple platforms, Sybase provides utilities to create and start a new DCDirector server or a DirectConnect server.

These utilities are C shell scripts (on UNIX) and batch files (on Windows) that can be found in these directories:

• /<install_dir>/DC-15_0/bin (UNIX)

• C:\<install_dir>\DC-15_0\bin (Windows)

To run properly, the scripts must be kept in their original directory. It is from this directory that the utilities can find the paths to the other files they need to perform their tasks.

The utilities are:

• DCDirector—creates and starts a DCDirector server

• AddServer—creates a new DirectConnect server

For more information about DirectConnect utilities, see the appendix in the Mainframe Connect DirectConnect for z/OS Option Installation Guide, and the Enterprise Connect Data Access Installation Guide, for your platform.