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.
About this task
An EP adapter specification is an XML definition that defines one EP adapter to CICS. An EP adapter consists of adapter and dispatcher information. Use an EP adapter to configure event emission.
There are some situations where you might want the EP adapter to be installed as its own resource. For example:
- Some events have been created in a test environment and sent using a WebSphere® MQ queue to WebSphere Operational Decision Management. You now want to deploy these events into production, but in the production environment they must be emitted using a different WebSphere MQ queue. You can use a separate EP adapter configuration to change the queue name without any changes to the event specifications and associated capture specifications.
- Some events have been emitted using the HTTP EP adapter, but now the volume of events and the requirements for robustness are such that it would be better to use WebSphere MQ. You can use a separate EP adapter configuration to change the EP adapter without changing the event specifications.
You configure this EP adapter in the Adapter tab of the EP adapter panel. As a system programmer, you set some configuration values for the event data that you want to emit. You repeat this step for each item of data you need during event processing.