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We have assessed this requirement. We have no current plans for this to be implemented and so this requirement is being declined at this point. The requirement will be kept in the RFE system and might be reassessed in the future. You also have an opportunity to resubmit in twelve months time if you wish it to be reconsidered then.
One example is that an application area is wanting to establish a long-term history of which thresholds are being exceeded by which regions. One alternative is to write out a WTO for our automation to pick up and write to a dataset, but I'm guessing this capability would benefit other customers and would help avoid the need to maintain more code. Even though it would be very straightforward coding, it would still be yet another piece of customization needing to be documented and maintained.
Using the TS model expirations as a comparison, practically every shop had to create their own version several decades before IBM provided the capability. Then, the customers excited to get rid of custom code, like us, migrate to IBM's implementation. Simply having a migration creates the risk of bumps in the road, just like keeping the custom version is a risk by virtue of being something to support that may break long after the primary implementers have retired.
This is going to be especially pertinent as less experienced sysprogs are expected to provide support at an ever quicker pace of change.
CICS event processing (EP) adapters are programs that format and then emit events from a CICS system after a CICS Application event or a Policy rule with the event action triggers. While we could supply sample EP adapters to perform common actions such as what's suggested above it is not clear from the requirement description which CICS Application events or Policy rules you would intend to use this new EP adapter with. Could you please let us know which events/rules you would be using to drive the proposed new EP adapter.