The following are upgrade considerations
and product changes for WebFOCUS Maintain:
xWebFOCUS Maintain Configuration Considerations
WebFOCUS Maintain uses the same WebFOCUS Client as regular WebFOCUS
reporting applications, and no Maintain-specific client configuration
is needed. The WebFOCUS Reporting Server installed for normal reporting
applications can run Maintain applications.
When configuring a WebFOCUS Server to run Maintain applications,
consider the following:
- Add outbound nodes
to the odin.cfg files. For procedures invoked on remote servers
(CALL AT, EXEC AT), you must add outbound nodes to the WebFOCUS
Server odin.cfg file for the target servers. You can use the Web
Console to edit all server files, including the odin.cfg file.
- Provide credentials
for remote server execution. To allow your WebFOCUS Maintain application
to CALL or EXEC procedures on remote servers that have security
enabled, you can pass credentials in one of three ways:
- Through the SQL EDA
SET servername/userid password statement in the source server edasprof.prf
or user profile.
- With SECURITY=PWP
in the source server odin.cfg file. If appropriate, allow credentials
for the source server to be passed to the target server.
- Using the WebFOCUS
Maintain SYS_MGR syntax to pass the credentials from within your
calling procedure.
- Fine-tune the agent_refresh
parameter. The default value for agent_refresh, in the edaserve.cfg
file, for a WebFOCUS Reporting Server, is 100. Depending on your application,
you may want to set this value to a lower number for WebFOCUS Maintain, as
connections to agents persist and therefore more activity is seen
per agent. A lower number, such as 5 or 10, allows an agent that
has been heavily used to be stopped and restarted more often, providing
clean environments for incoming connections.
- Use Deployment=Private
in edaserve.cfg. You must have deployment=private in the edaserve.cfg
file. This is the default for a WebFOCUS Reporting Server.
For more information on configuring outbound nodes, SQL EDA commands,
changing edaserve.cfg parameters, and using the Web Console, see
the Server Administration for UNIX, Windows, OpenVMS, IBM
i, and z/OS manual. For more information about the WebFOCUS
Maintain SYS_MGR syntax, refer to the Maintain Language Reference manual.