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 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.
Using the EP search function
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.
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.