Specification tab

Use the specification tab to work with event specifications and capture specifications.

An image of the specification tab.

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.

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:

Capture Point tab
Use this tab to choose the EXEC CICS command that you want to associate with this capture point and provide a name and description for the capture point.
Filtering tab
In this tab, you provide predicates to restrict the situations in which an event is emitted. If you provide no predicates, events are emitted every time the EXEC CICS command that is chosen in the capture point tab runs in the target CICS system. Each predicate consists of information identifying the predicate, an operator, and a value. You can specify as many predicates as you need to identify the situation in which you want this capture point to emit an event. You can specify three types of predicates:
  • Application Context
  • Application Command Options
  • Application Data
Information Sources tab
Use this tab to map the business information items that are associated with the event specification to available data items for this capture point. The tab consists of a table of the business information items that you defined. To map the item, double-click the item, and the Edit Information Source window opens.