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COF Overview

The CICS Operations Facility(COF) enables CA OPS/MVS to control, operate, and administer one or more CICS regions.

The COF is an optional feature of CA OPS/MVS. Some CICS messages are written only to internal data sets called transient data queues. These messages are not broadcast through the normal z/OS subsystem message interface; therefore, AOF rule processing will not see them. Rather, the COF selectively traps the messages and forwards them to the AOF for rule processing.

The functionality provided by the COF is part of the integrated and unified solution for controlling z/OS subsystems such as CICS, JES, and IMS.