The CICSPlex® SM application programming interface (API) provides you with access to CICS® system management
information and allows you to invoke CICSPlex SM services from an external program.
The API can provide a single interface for programs designed to monitor
and control the CICS systems in your enterprise. In addition, the API provides
an interface to CICSPlex SM itself. So you can also write programs to access the
administrative functions that control the way CICSPlex SM operates.
Some typical uses of the API include:
- Monitoring key resources in your CICS environment.
- Changing the status of CICS resources relative to other conditions in
your enterprise.
- Controlling the flow of change to your CICS environment.
- Passing the information provided by CICSPlex SM to an automation product.
- Developing alternative display and report formats for CICS and CICSPlex SM data.
- Processing CICSPlex SM notifications about events such as:
- Real-time analysis thresholds being reached
- Creating and maintaining CICSPlex SM definitions for Business Application Services, for workload management, real-time analysis,
and resource monitoring.
- Creating and maintaining CICS resource definitions in the CICSPlex SM data repository.
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