The Controller Daemon plays a special role on platforms running Data Capture Agents, authenticating incoming connection requests from Engines and Utilities usually running on other platforms, and transferring the opened socket to the requested Capture/Publisher. The Authorized Key File of the Capture Controller Daemon must contain the Public keys of all Engines and Utilities that will request connections to Captures/Publishers managed by the Daemon.
Setup and configuration of the Capture Controller Daemon, SQDAEMON, includes the following steps:
- Create access control list
- Create agent configuration file
- Prepare z/OS controller daemon JCL