Use the Event specification pane in the specifications tab in the CICS® event binding editor to manage your event specifications.
You can specify general information for the event specification, consisting of a name and a description.
You can add and remove event information that you want to capture for this event specification, and you can order the items of event information.
When a format
length is specified as Automatic in the Emitted
Business Information table in the CICS event binding editor, this
indicates that the length of the emitted business information item
is derived from the length and type of the captured field. (When there
is more than one capture specification, the first one is used.) This
is useful for avoiding the situation where the specified length is
too small, which results in the data being truncated or emitted as
asterisks.
You can add capture specifications to the event specification. A capture specification defines the EXEC CICS command, filtering, and data values for the event. You can create more than one capture specification for an event specification. For each capture specification, the editor opens a notebook with the following three tabs: