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.