How to Implement CAISDI › Configure CAISDI/elmds › Customize the CAISDI/med Product Parameters › SERVER Statement

SERVER Statement

The SERVER statement identifies the connection between the CAISDI/med address space and a named CA Service Desk server through an optionally named CAISDI/soap address space.

SERVER   USDSRV01,           /* Name for this server connection            */+
         HOSTNAME=host_name, /* SOAP Client Service CAICCI host name       */+
         TIMEOUT=30,         /* SOAP Client Service TIMEOUT in seconds     */+
         URL_SYMBOL=symbol   /* Service Desk server URL address            */

The SERVER name parameter is purely arbitrary; however, the installation should supply a meaningful name.

The HOSTNAME parameter should be used to supply the CAICCI name of the CAISDI/soap address space, if the CAISDI/soap is not running on the local z/OS image.

The TIMEOUT parameter controls the amount of time the CAISDI/soap server waits before returning a time-out condition to the CAISDI/med address space. The default value of 30 seconds should be adequate unless network or server traffic is particularly high between the CAISDI/elmds address space and the CA Service Desk server.

The optional URL_SYMBOL identifies a “symbol” that is passed to the CAISDI/soap server. The CAISDI/soap server will then determine the value of its Environmental Variable URL_symbol and use that as the URL of the CA Service Desk server. For example, if “URL_SYMBOL=WS2” then Environmental Variable “URL_WS2” must be defined to the CAISDI/soap server with a value which is the URL for the CA Service Desk server. See the CASOAPE Environmental Variables.

Note: You need one SERVER statement for each CA Service Desk server with which your CAISDI/elmds address space should communicate.