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CAIENF

CA DRAS uses CAIENF (Event Notification Facility) services. CAIENF is an operating system interface component that provides a simple approach for CA products to obtain data from an MVS system by interfacing to any of CA's z/OS applications, thus exploiting technologies such as relational database architectures for the benefit of the entire product line.

The level of integration is improved by enabling operating systems and CA software-generated event information to be driven through a standard interface, simplifying multiple product-to-product interfaces, and associated necessary maintenance.

Be aware of the following:

• CAIENF must be installed into an APF authorized library.

  Linklist is recommended although it is not required.

• CAIENF runs as a started task within its own address space.

  A database must be allocated and initialized for CAIENF to use. For more information about space requirements, see the CA Common Services documentation.

Note: CA DRAS does not use the CAIENF/CICS component.