Verifying the Installation

After installing, you must complete several steps to verify that the software has been correctly installed and configured.

Before verifying the installation, you can use the following checklist to ensure that you have specified all the required settings to establish communications between the TIBCO EMS Client for z/OS (CICS) and the TIBCO EMS server.

Requirement Check
Is the <USERHLQ>AUTH library APF-authorized?
Has the <USERHLQ>AUTH library been concatenated to the STEPLIB DDNAME of your CICS startup procedures?
Is the TIBCO EMS server running? Can you ping the IP address or the DNS name where the server is located from your host?
Have you restarted your Transaction Server region?

To verify that TIBCO EMS Client for z/OS (CICS) has been correctly installed and configured, perform the following actions from within the CICS region:

This product also includes a sample MVS consumer and producer for batch testing. The following actions are optional:
  • Run the TIBCO EMS messaging consumer batch program by running the appropriate startup JCL.
  • Run the TIBCO EMS messaging producer batch program by running the appropriate startup JCL.

For details, see Running the MVS Batch Services.