Concepts
These topics explain the concepts behind the CICS® event binding editor.
- What is event processing?
An event is anything that happens that is significant to an enterprise. Event processing is the capture, enrichment, formatting and emission of events, the subsequent routing and any further processing of emitted events (sometimes in combination with other events), and the consumption of the processed events. - How CICS supports event processing
CICS supports the production of events from applications, when certain EXEC CICS commands are run, or when certain system conditions occur. For example, when a file status changes or an unhandled transaction abend occurs. These events can be consumed by a variety of event consumers. - Event processing (EP) adapter specification
An EP adapter specification is an XML definition that defines how events that use the specification are formatted and emitted. - Event processing (EP) adapter set specification
An EP adapter set specification is an XML definition that contains multiple EP adapter names. By using an EP adapter set, you can format and emit events to multiple EP adapters. - Event processing (EP) adapter configuration editor
Use the EP adapter configuration editor to configure your EP adapter. - Event processing (EP) adapter set editor
Use the event processing adapter set editor to configure your EP adapter set. - How CICS assures event emission
You can assure emission of an event by using an EP adapter with synchronous emission mode and the appropriate transaction mode. With synchronous emission, event formatting and emission processing is completed synchronously within the unit of work of the capturing transaction. The unit of work completes successfully only if the event is emitted. - Event processing search
Using the EP search, you can search event bindings and EP adapter configurations for named resources. You can also search by variable, structure, and copybook name of an imported language structure. Using search scope you can either search your workspace or online CICS resources. - CICS event binding editor tabs
The event binding file is an XML file that defines a set of event specifications to CICS. Each event binding file can be separately deployed. The event binding consists of several parts, each edited in a separate tab in the editor. - Schema versions
Schema versions are used to provide the greatest compatibility with your systems.
Parent topic: CICS Event Binding Editor User Guide