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Event Management Utilities

The CA Common Services for z/OS Event Management Utilities provide services that enable mainframe applications to integrate with Event Management running on z/OS and other platforms, through z/OS assembler and C language interfaces.

Frequently, applications running on z/OS need to route alerts to Event Management. Often, these applications run in environments where directly generating Event Management alerts is difficult or impossible. Because there are many ways to integrate with Event Management, it can be difficult for any particular application to support all possible configurations. The Event Management Utilities provide a way of achieving CA integration in most of these cases.

Tasks running in most z/OS environments—such as TSO, batch, or started task address spaces, as well as IDMS, CICS, and IMS transactions—can invoke Event Management Utilities. No special privileges are needed, and assembler programs can use the utilities without requirements for IBM’s Language Environment (LE) or USS. To guarantee top performance, most processing occurs asynchronously under the direction of a separate utility server process in its own address space. This design results in a service that can be used by nearly any application, including those with strict performance constraints.

The overall utility interface consists of three components:

• A macro interface (#EMWTO) that can be invoked by any mainframe application
• A C/C++ interface library for applications written in C and other LE‑conforming languages
• An Event Management Utility process that routes requests to Event Management on any CA platform