How You Can Use the COF

Here are some things you can do with the COF:

If security and console definitions are properly defined to CICS, you can issue various operator-oriented CICS transactions (CEMT) through the z/OS MODIFY console command.
The COF provides the additional CICS internal message traffic to detect automateable events. From these events, you can invoke complex automation procedures to handle most CICS subsystem availability and recovery issues for daily operations.
Several CA OPS/MVS COF parameters enable you to WTO all transient data messages so that they can be displayed on a specific console, the system log, and in OPSLOG.
Periodically, you may produce a special CICS heartbeat message, OPS3420O, to ensure that transaction activity is proceeding normally in CICS.