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Event specification

An event specification describes an event and its emitted business information. An event specification is created in an event binding by using the CICS® event binding editor.

The emitted business information defines the business data or information to be contained in the event.

Event specifications can also contain an event description. The event description can be used to provide more information about the event. For example, it might be used to indicate the intended use for this event, such as sending the data to the business orders dashboard.

An event specification also defines the business data or information to be contained in the event. The following example shows the information an event specification might contain.

Event Name: Order_over_10000

Event Description: When an order in excess of $10,000 is confirmed, emit an event to a business dashboard with information about the customer that place the order.

Emitted Business Information:
  • Order_Number (numeric)
  • Order_Date (numeric)
  • Customer_Reference (numeric)
  • Customer_Name (text)
  • Customer_Address (text)
  • Capture specification
    The capture specification defines the place in CICS where a particular event can be captured. Use capture points, filter predicates, and capture data to define the place where an event can be captured, the conditions that an event can be captured, and the data to be captured.
Parent topic: Event binding
Related concepts:
Event binding
Capture specification
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