Changes to CICS monitoring

This section summarizes the changes to monitoring across supported CICS® TS releases. It includes changes to performance class data, exception class data, transaction class data, identity class data, MCT and DFH$MOLS. Use this information to plan the impact of upgrading from one release to another.

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 changes by class across supported releases of CICS TS

This section provides a summary listing of new and changed monitoring class data groups for each class of monitoring data. The links take you to the relevant tables that describe changes to specific groups.

Highlights of CICS monitoring changes by release
Performance class data
5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED GROUPS: CHANGED GROUPS: CHANGED GROUPS: CHANGED GROUPS:
Exception class data
5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED GROUP: CHANGED GROUPS:

None

  
Transaction resource class data
5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3

None

 NEW GROUPS:
  • MNR_URIMAP_FLAG
  • MNR_URIMAP_TLSLVL

None

  
Identity class data
5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3

None

None

None

  

Changes to performance class data, by release of CICS TS

View changes by group:
DFHCICS
Table 1. Changes to performance class data in DFHCICS group by release
5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED with APAR PH42306: Field 089 (USERID) is changed for Liberty such that the user ID value now reflects the final user ID value used in secure Liberty transactions, instead of the initial user ID. CHANGED:
  • Enhanced to provide association data of DPL requests by EXCI clients. If a task was initiated by an EXCI client, in the performance record of the DPL request, field 374 (PHAPPLID) contains the EXCI job name, field 378 (PHCOUNT) contains a value of 1, and field 376 (PHTRANNO) has a value of 0.

    The data is populated to transaction resource class data and identity class data.

  • Field 089 (USERID) is changed for Liberty such that the user ID value now reflects the final user ID value used in secure Liberty transactions, instead of the initial user ID.
    
DFHOTEL
Table 2. Changes to performance class data in DFHOTEL group by release
5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
      NEW FIELDS:
  • OTELMISC
  • OTELPID
  • OTELSID
  • OTELTID
DFHSOCK
Table 3. Changes to performance class data in DFHSOCK group by release
5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
  NEW FIELDS:
  • SOFLAG
  • SOTLSLVL
CHANGED FIELDS:
  • SOCNPSCT is clarified as a data field that indicates the total number of requests made by the user task to create an outbound socket.
  • SONPSHWM is clarified as a data field that indicates the peak number of outbound sockets owned by the user task.
REMOVED FIELDS:
  • SOCPSCT
  • SOPSHWM
    
DFHTASK
Table 4. Changes to performance class data in DFHTASK group by release
5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
NEW FIELDS:
  • SMMVSSWT
  • XSVFYBAS
  • XSVFYJWT
  • XSVFYKER
  • XSVFYPWD
   NEW FIELDS:
  • TCLSTSKS
  • XSNLNACT
  • XSNLNFCT
 NEW FIELDS:
  • XSSAFT
  • XSAUTHOR

Changes to exception class data, by release of CICS TS

View changes to exception class data by exception type (EXCMNTYP):

EXCMNPOL
Table 5. Changes to EXCMNPOL exception class data by release
5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3

NEW TYPE with APAR PH29187: Exception resource type CONTAINR

NEW TYPE with APAR PH34348: Exception resource type TRANDUMP

 NEW TYPES:
  • Exception resource type CONTAINR
  • Exception resource type TRANDUMP
    
EXCMNWT
Table 6. Changes to EXCMNWT exception class data by release
5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
  NEW TYPE:
  • Exception resource type DSWC,which has possible EXCMNRID values of S8TLSHS and XSPSWVFY.
    

Changes to transaction resource class data, by release of CICS TS

View changes to transaction resource class data by group:

Table 7. Changes to transaction resource class data by release
Group 5.6 6.1 6.2 CICS TS 6.3
MNR_URIMAP_CIPHER        
MNR_URIMAP_FLAG   NEW    
MNR_URIMAP_NAME        
MNR_URIMAP_TLSLVL   NEW    
MNR_URIMAP_WEBOPEN        
MNR_URIMAP_WEBRECV        
MNR_URIMAP_WEBSEND        
MNR_WEBSVC_NAME        
MNR_WEBSVC_PIPE        
MNR_WEBSVC_INVK