You want easy access to the Announcements for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) and CICS Tools. You would like to know the generally availability (GA) date of a new release of a CICS product and see a summary of the new features. You would also like to know if there have been any updates since general availability.
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The "Planned Availability Data" (also known as "General Availability (GA) date") can be found in the announcements that IBM publishes when a new release is announced. IBM also publishes continuous delivery updates between releases. You can find a summary of the new features along with other information in both types of announcements.
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Note that products might not all display on the Lifecycle page after the EOS date.
CICS Transaction Server Announcements
IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 6.2 general availability (*GA date 14 June 2024)
IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS open beta program is updated (January 2024)
IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 5.5, 5.6, and 6.1 are updated (January 2023)
IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 6.1 delivers significant improvements in the areas of developer productivity, security, and management (*GA date 17 June 2022)
IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 5.6 is updated in the areas of developer productivity, management, resilience, and security (January 2022)
IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 5.6 is updated in the areas of resilience and management (April 2021)
IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 5.6 is updated in the areas of developer experience, resilience, and management (January 2021)
IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.6 delivers significant improvements to the developer experience, security, resilience, and management (*GA date 12 June 2020)
IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, V5.5 is enhanced using continuous delivery, together with significant updates to the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, V5.6 open beta offering (January 2020)
IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, V5.5 is enhanced with the continuous delivery model and the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, V5.6 open beta offering is introduced (October 2019)
IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.5 delivers significant Node.js foundation and developer experience updates by using the continuous delivery model (July 2019)
IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.5 (*GA date 14 December 2018)
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CICS Tools Announcements
CICS Batch Application Control for z/OS V1.1.1
CICS Batch Application Control for z/OS V1.1
CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS V5.4
CICS Explorer V5.5 and IBM Explorer for z/OS V3.2
CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS 6.1
CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS 5.5
CICS Online Transmission Time Optimizer for z/OS V1.2
CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS V5.4
CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS V5.2
CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS V2.1
IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS V3.1
IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS V2.1
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