How event processing can help your business

CICS® event processing enhances business flexibility by providing a noninvasive methodology for enhancing business applications. Events are defined and controlled independently of the business logic, extending a business application without modification. You can use event processing to enhance governance for standards compliance, and to monitor business processing.

You can use event processing to detect business situations, providing early and intelligent insight to assist you in making timely and effective business decisions. Event processing can help your business in these ways:
  • Getting the correct information with the correct level of detail to the relevant person at the appropriate time.
  • Facilitating quick observation of exceptional business behavior and notifying the appropriate people.
  • Diagnosing problems based on symptoms and resolving them.
  • Providing data for dashboard display of real-time business service availability.
  • Monitoring the health of a system.
CICS event processing enhances business flexibility by providing a noninvasive methodology for enhancing business applications. Events are defined and controlled independently of the business logic, extending a business application without modification.
  • CICS provides assured event emission for your business-critical, event-based solutions. Events can be used to extend applications as reliably as if you had, for example, added an MQPUT statement to an application to write an event, without actually changing the application.
  • CICS event processing can emit events at a number of clearly defined points, known as capture points. A capture point is an opportunity for an event to be emitted. Capture points are provided before and after selected EXEC CICS API calls and at program start. All significant points in a CICS application can emit an event.