Since your CICS transactions and the batch servers in question all use the same DB2 data sharing group, I think you can use DSNC transaction and execute DB2 command: -DIS THD(myserver) TYPE(*) SCOPE(GROUP). If myserver is up, you should see threads, and if it works it's real-time . I don't know if there's a more general API. DSNC does allow routing the command output to another destination.
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