The CA OPS/MVS generic event Application Program Interface (API) enables CA software products to trigger CA OPS/MVS events directly. CA OPS/MVS responds to API-generated events by executing AOF rules. The interface is synchronous, meaning all rules that execute due to API activity complete execution before control returns to the application.
Coding guidelines are described for each type of AOF rule. The following specific information is presented in alphabetical order by rule type for all AOF rule types:
Traditionally, CA software products triggered a CA OPS/MVS event by issuing a console message, which was trapped by CA OPS/MVS in the subsystem interface and processed in a MSG rule. Using the API instead of issuing a console message reduces some of the overhead associated with messages. In addition, the information passed to CA OPS/MVS is not constrained by message restrictions such as message length. Generic events are processed by API type rules.
For each event generated by an application, the application provides CA OPS/MVS the information needed to create a set of environmental variables related to that event. There is a set of common environmental variables that are generically described in this chapter. However, each application may provide more detailed information about these variables in its own documentation set. In addition, see the documentation of the calling application for details of the application-specific variables that are created by each application for each event.
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