3.15 Connection Configuration File

The following table lists and defines connections that can be loaded by ART CICS application servers. Connection configuration file is mandatory to set for ARTCTRN but optional to set for other servers.

The filename is connections.desc.

The format of a connection definition is:

[CONNID]
<field_name_1>=<field_value_1>
<field_name_2>=<field_value_2>
...
<field_name_n>=<field_value_n>

Table 3-13 Connection Parameters

Field Name	Type	Values	Description
CONNID	X(4)	Mandatory	Name of the connection.
GROUP	X(10)	Mandatory	The group notion of CICS allowing a group of related resources to be declared and instantiated or not by a CICS system when starting.
PROTOCOL	X(4)	Mandatory APPC | LU61	Specifies the type of protocol that implements the connection.
NETNAME	X(8)	Mandatory	Specifies the APPLID of a CICS region, which receives the connection.
MAXIMUM	0~999， 0~999	Mandatory (only for APPC)	Specifies the maximum number of sessions in the modeset. The format is MAXIMUM=value_1,value_2, where Value_1 must be greater than or equal to value_2.
RECEIVECOUNT	999	Mandatory (only for LU61)	Specifies the number of receive sessions; receive sessions can only receive before sending.
SENDCOUNT	999	Mandatory (only for LU61)	Specifies the number of send sessions; send sessions must send before they can receive.