Use the Add New Application Data dialog
in the CICS® event binding editor
to define application data predicates, choose a location where the
data is found, and enter the format.
When you add new application data by clicking
Add,
the
Add New Application Data panel is displayed.
- Operator
- Operator choices:
- All
- Exists
- Equals
- Does Not Equal
- Does Not Exist
- Starts With
- Does Not Start With
- Less Than
- Not Less Than
- Greater Than
- Not Greater Than
- Value
- The value that you specify for the predicate.
- Location
- The location of the data. For example, the FROM option on a WRITEQ
TS command or a COMMAREA.
- Container
- The name of the container containing data against which to filter.
Available when Location is set to CHANNEL.
Click the
button if you want to import a language structure. You can
then select the field against which you want to filter from the language
structure. If you use this method the Type, Offset,
and Length fields are automatically completed.
Alternatively, you can specify the Type, Offset,
and Length values.
- Type
- Specifies the data type for the application data predicate. The
following data types are available:
- Binary Floating Point
- Character
- Character terminated by null
- Decimal Floating Point
- Hexadecimal
- Hexadecimal terminated by null
- Hexadecimal Floating Point
- Packed Decimal
- Signed Halfword
- Signed Fullword
- Unsigned Halfword
- Unsigned Fullword
- Zoned Decimal
- Offset
- Specifies the distance from the beginning, where the data starts.
Offset 0 is the start of the field.
- Length
- The length of the field in bytes. A length of 0 means filter on
the whole data area or container. This is useful when filtering on,
for example, the contents of a container regardless of its length.
- Codepage
- The code page of the field for character field types.