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What Is the CICS Operations Facility Interface (COF)

The COF is an optional interface between CA OPS/MVS and CICS that extends the CA OPS/MVS facilities to CICS. For example, the COF enables you to write AOF rules that process CICS messages, and you can use OPSVIEW to operate CICS.

The version of the COF that is provided with CA OPS/MVS uses the CICS global exit (the XTDOUT exit) to intercept all transient data write requests without modifying the CICS Transient Data Control Table (DCT).