10.4.5 Working with Trade 6.1

The last step is to verify the Trade 6.1 installation. First test whether Trade 6.1 runs on your application server. You can connect to Trade 6.1 without a Web server by connecting directly to the Web Container Inbound Chain of one of your application servers.

1. Open the Trade 6.1 start page using the following URL (the port number depends on the configuration):

   http://<host_name>:9080/trade

   In our environment, the URL was:

   http://pt.itsc.austin.ibm.com:9080/trade

   If this is successful, you should see the overview page as shown in Figure 10-5.

   

   Figure 10-5 Trade 6.1 Overview page

   Before using the Trade 6 application, populate the database, as explained here:

2. Click the Configuration link on the left side of the Trade 6 index page.

3. In the Configuration utilities window, click (Re-)populate Trade Database. Wait until the database population has been completed.

4. Before closing the window, review the default Trade 6 configuration, then click Update Config button.

5. After populating the database, run the following DB2 commands to update DB2 statistics:

   db2 connect to ptradedb user <db_user> using <password>
   db2 reorgchk update statistics

6. Click the Go Trade! link on the left side of the Trade 6.1 Overview page. You are forwarded to the Trade 6.1 login page shown in Figure 10-6

7. Click the Log in button and start to use Trade 6.1.

   

   Figure 10-6 Trade 6.1 Log in page

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