You add an event specification to an event binding to describe a
business event and the information to be captured for the event.
About this task
When you have a clear idea of the events that you want to intercept, you use the
CICS® event binding editor to specify them to CICS.
- Click the
Event Binding
tab in the
CICS event binding editor.
- Click
Add. The
Add Event Specification
window opens.
- Enter a name for your event specification. The acceptable characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and _. Leading
and embedded blank characters are not permitted. The string must not start with 0-9, _ or "xml" in any case, for example "Xml" or "xMl".
- Optional: Enter a description for your event specification.
- Click
OK. A new event specification is listed in the Event Specifications section.
- Double-click the new event specification in the Event Specifications section,
or click Edit Details. The
Specification
tab opens with the details of your new event specification.
- Specify any data that you want to capture in this event. You do not have to capture any data; you might
want to emit an event with a name and no data.
If you do want to capture data, look at the
Emitted Business Information
section in the Specifications tab.
It contains a table of information to be captured for the event. For each item of business information that
you want to capture, complete the following steps:
- Click
Add. The
Event Information
window appears.
- Enter a name for the business information item. The acceptable characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and _. Leading
and embedded blank characters are not permitted. The string must not start with 0-9, _ or "xml" in any case, for example "Xml" or "xMl".
- Provide a type, length, and description of the business information item. You can also specify a precision for
numeric business information items.
After you have added emitted business information items,
you can change the order in which the items are emitted by
selecting an item and using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.
Results
You can now create capture specifications to describe your event specification to
CICS. You do this by
clicking
Add a capture specification, or, if you are adding a SIGNAL EVENT command to
your program, you can generate a capture point for it by clicking
Automatic Capture Specification.