that enable users to make use of events and to define the event processing behavior themselves. Business event processing provides IT with the functionality to support advanced event processing requirements in a high-performance, manageable, scalable environment. The event support in CICS is designed to significantly reduce the development time for introducing event-driven solutions and to allow IT to respond more rapidly to requests from the business. 5.3 Solutions for integrated business event processing The IBM software portfolio enables a range of options for processing business events. In this section, we provide an introduction to the two key products that interoperate with events from CICS: WebSphere Business Monitor and WebSphere Business Events: WebSphere Business Monitor WebSphere Business Monitor is comprehensive business activity monitoring (BAM) software that provides business users with a real-time and end-to-end view of business processes, events, and operations. It is a core part of the IBM WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition foundational offering of the IBM Business Process Management (BPM) suite, and is also available as a standalone product. WebSphere Business Events WebSphere Business Events helps businesses to detect, evaluate, and respond to the impact of business events based on the discovery of action able event patterns. WebSphere Business Events is specifically designed to support business event processing by meeting the high-volume demands and processing that is required across industries and application domains. Equally important is the extensive use of graphical, codeless user interfaces that greatly simplify implementation and empower business users to directly develop and maintain event processing logic. 5.4 Event capability in CICS In December 2008, IBM enabled support for interoperation between WebSphere Business Events V6 and CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3 through a new SupportPac capability that is available for download from the CICS Web site for all licensed users of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.2. Using this CICS SupportPac you can implement event points in CICS applications, which Chapter 5. Event processing support 73