Tasks

These tasks illustrate how you can use the CICS® event binding editor to create, edit and deploy event bindings.

  • Creating an event binding file
    You create an event binding file in a CICS bundle project to contain event specifications, their associated capture specifications, the EP adapter used for all events and options to control the dispatch of events.
  • Creating an event binding from a CICS File resource
    You can create an event binding from a CICS File resource in the CICS SM Files view.
  • Creating an EP adapter file
    You create an EP adapter file in a CICS bundle project to contain your EP adapter specification. When an EP adapter is installed as its own resource, you can easily switch events to use a different EP adapter configuration, or different EP adapter altogether, and also send the same event to multiple destinations.
  • Creating an event specification
    You add an event specification to an event binding to describe a business event and the information to be captured for the event.
  • Copying an event specification
    You can use the CICS event binding editor to copy an existing event specification, with or without copying the capture specifications in the source event specification.
  • Exporting event specifications
    You can export descriptions for one or more event specifications in your event binding as a schema or copybook for use elsewhere.
  • Analyzing your application and its data
    The CICS event binding editor formalizes the specification of business events, giving IT professionals a definitive statement of the requirement. Using the same tool, you define the technical changes necessary to initiate event processing.
  • Adding a capture specification
    You add capture specifications to an event specification to create capture points in CICS.
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    Use the event processing (EP) search function to search event bindings and EP adapter configurations for named resources. You can also search installed CICS resources.
  • Copying a capture specification
    You can use the CICS event binding editor to copy an existing capture specification.
  • Specifying EP adapter and dispatcher information
    You specify information in your event binding that controls how CICS emits events produced by the event binding.
  • Deploying a CICS bundle project
    You can deploy a CICS bundle directly to a z/OS® UNIX System Services (z/OS UNIX) file system from CICS Explorer®, and use a BUNDLE resource to create resources dynamically for you. A BUNDLE resource defines a bundle, the unit of deployment for an application.
  • Understanding the events that are enabled in your CICS system
    You can use CICS Explorer to browse event bindings and capture specifications. For example, the Event Bindings view shows the bundles that are installed in different regions and whether the bundles are enabled.
  • Exporting a CICS bundle project to your local file system
    If you do not have authorization to deploy a bundle directly to a z/OS file system, or you want to backup your bundle source code, you can export the bundle project to your local file system. and then transfer the exported archive file to your z/OS UNIX file system, source code repository, or to another user.