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CICS Transaction Server V5

CICS Business EventsQuick and Easy

Eric Higgins

erichiggins@us.ibm.com

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Why Business Event Processing?

Event

Pos Purchase

Event

No meter signal

Event

GPS Signal

Business Context

2nd purchase in a week and total purchases this year > $1000

Business Context

Third consecutive period without signal

Business Context

Calculated arrival > 30 min over SLA

Action: Offer loyalty program membership before customer leaves the store

Action: Trigger automated troubleshooting process

Action: Phone customer to re-arrange delivery

“Turn insight into action”

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CICS TS Event Processing Support

CICS TS

Existing Business Logic

CICS Event Processing

Event CaptureFiltering

EnrichmentFormatting

Routing

Extensible

SecuredMonitored

etc.

CODE

NOT

CHANGEDCaptured

Events

Development and Deployment Tools

Events

Operational Decision Manager

Operational Decision Manager

Other Event Consumers

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“How to” from CICS Knowledge Center (V5.2 Open Beta)

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“How to” from CICS Info Center (V4 and V5.1)

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Supplied Example provided with Explorer

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Red Book on CICS Event Processing

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247792.pdf

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Let’s build our Event

Business Requirement (GenAPP):• I need know when an auto policy is updated

• Give me the agent making the update, Customer #, and Policy #

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Upcoming “Ask the Experts” Technical Exchange

Demystifying Event Processing in CICS Date: 05 June 2014 Time: 11:00 AM EDT

To learn more about this presentation and information on how to participate: http://www.ibm.com/software/websphere/support/TE/techex_H778340V01201Z77.html

Or email me at erichiggins@us.ibm.com and I can send you the link

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CICS has a key part to play

“CICS runs Core Business Logic” “CICS is where business events happen”

“CICS must provide the ability to capture and

emit events in a non invasive fashion”