Changes to CEMT

This section summarizes the changes to the CICS® main terminal transaction, CEMT, across supported CICS releases. Use this information to plan the impact of upgrading from one release to another.

For information about changes to other transactions, see Changes to CICS transactions.

If you are upgrading from an end-of-service release, you can find information about the changes that are relevant to those releases in Summary of changes from end-of-service releases.

Highlights of CEMT changes across supported releases of CICS TS

Table 1 gives you a list of new, changed, deprecated, and removed CEMT commands in each supported CICS TS release.

The links provided for new CEMT commands take you to their reference information in the product documentation.

The links provided for the other, changed CEMT commands take you to the relevant tables below where brief descriptions of the changes are provided.

Table 1. Highlights of CEMT changes across supported releases of CICS TS
5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3

CEMT INQUIRE DB2ENTRY

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE DB2ENTRY

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
  NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS    

CEMT INQUIRE DSAS

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE DSAS

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
  NEW OPTIONS: PCDSASIZE, PUDSASIZE, EPCDSASIZE, EPUDSASIZE in support of Instruction Execution Protection.

REMOVED OPTION: ETDSASIZE

    

CEMT INQUIRE DUMPDS

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE DUMPDS

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED: New value ALL for SWITCHSTATUS option      

CEMT INQUIRE OTEL

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE OTEL

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
      NEW OPTION:TRACE

CEMT INQUIRE SYDUMPCODE

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE SYDUMPCODE

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
NEW OPTIONS: CHANGEAGENT, CHANGEAGREL, CHANGETIME , CHANGEUSRID, DEFINESOURCE, DEFINETIME, INSTALLAGENT, INSTALLTIME and INSTALLUSRID      

CEMT INQUIRE SYSTEM

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE SYSTEM

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED: New value TABLEONLY returned for DUMPING option NEW OPTIONS:
  • SDTMEMLIMIT
  • SRRTASKS
 NEW OPTION: GRPLIST  

CEMT INQUIRE TASK

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE TASK

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
  NEW OPTION: SRRSTATUS    

CEMT INQUIRE TCLASS

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE TCLASS

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
  NEW OPTION: PURGEACTION  

CEMT INQUIRE TCPIPSERVICE

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE TCPIPSERVICE

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
NEW OPTION: OPTIONSPGM      

CEMT INQUIRE TRDUMPCODE

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE TRDUMPCODE

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
NEW OPTIONS: CHANGEAGENT, CHANGEAGREL, CHANGETIME , CHANGEUSRID, DEFINESOURCE, DEFINETIME, INSTALLAGENT, INSTALLTIME and INSTALLUSRID      

CEMT INQUIRE TRANSACTION

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE TRANSACTION

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
      NEW OPTIONS: OTELEMIT, OTELPROP

CEMT INQUIRE TSQUEUE / TSQNAME

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE TSQUEUE / TSQNAME

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
NEW OPTION: TSMODEL      

CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN

Related reference: CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
    CHANGED:

CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN and CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE enhanced to support the shutdown of CMAS and MAS regions.

 

CEMT PERFORM STATISTICS

Related reference: CEMT PERFORM STATISTICS

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
NEW OPTIONS: SECURITY and USER NEW OPTION: CIPHER    

CEMT SET DB2ENTRY

Related reference: CEMT SET DB2ENTRY

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
  NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS    

CEMT SET DSAS

Related reference: CEMT SET DSAS

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
  CHANGED: The DSAs that are covered by DSALIMIT and EDSALIMIT include the new DSAs that are never protected from instruction execution.    

CEMT SET DUMPDS

Related reference: CEMT SET DUMPDS

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED: New value ALL for SWITCHSTATUS option      

CEMT SET OTEL

Related reference: CEMT SET OTEL

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
      NEW OPTION: TRACE

CEMT SET SYSTEM

Related reference: CEMT SET SYSTEM

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED: New value TABLEONLY supported for DUMPING option. NEW OPTION: SDTMEMLIMIT    

CEMT SET TASK

Related reference: CEMT SET TASK

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
  NEW OPTION: SRRSTATUS    

CEMT SET TCLASS

Related reference: CEMT SET TCLASS

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
  NEW OPTION: PURGEACTION  

CEMT SET TRANSACTION

Related reference: CEMT SET TRANSACTION

5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
      NEW OPTIONS: OTELEMIT, OTELPROP