Changes to CICS policies
This section summarizes changes to CICS® policies across in-service CICS releases.
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.
CICS policies bring together the following two features introduced in earlier CICS TS releases:
- System events, which are now superseded by policy system rules
The policy system rule capability was initially introduced in CICS TS 5.4 and made available to earlier CICS TS Version 5 releases by service.
- CICS policy task threshold rules, which are renamed to policy task rules following the introduction of policy system rules in CICS TS 5.4
| Change (System rule) | 5.6 | 6.1 | 6.2 | CICS TS 6.3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All system rules: Support for rule action Set z/OS WLM health open status | NEW | CHANGED with APAR PH58295: New option to change the WLMHEALTH time interval |
CHANGED: New option to change the WLMHEALTH time interval | |
| All system rules: Support for static data capture items and event names for policy events | ||||
| AID threshold | ||||
| APPC(LU62) connection status | NEW | |||
| Bundle available status | ||||
| Bundle enable status | ||||
| Compound condition | NEW | CHANGED: New rule types of APPC(LU62) connection status and JVM server enable status added as optional filters. | ||
| Db2® connection status | ||||
| DBCTL connection status | NEW | |||
| File open status | ||||
| File enable status | ||||
| IBM® MQ connection status | NEW | |||
| IPIC connection status | ||||
| JVM server enable status | NEW | |||
| Message | ||||
| MRO connection status | ||||
| Pipeline enable status | NEW | |||
| Program enable status | ||||
| Transaction abend | CHANGED:
The name of the program to which the unhandled transaction abend occurred is now captured and contained in container DFHEP.DATA.00005. |
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| Transaction class queued tasks | NEW | |||
| Transaction class tasks | ||||
| Transaction dump threshold | NEW with APAR PH34348 | NEW |
| Change (Task rule) | 5.6 | 6.1 | 6.2 | CICS TS 6.3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All task rules: Support for setting Transaction ID and User ID conditions for task rules | NEW with APAR PH26145 | NEW | ||
| All task rules: Support for static data capture items and event names for policy events | ||||
| Container storage | NEW with APAR PH29187 | NEW | ||
| File requests | CHANGED: New option ALL | |||
| Storage allocation | CHANGED: New option ALL | |||
| Storage requests | CHANGED: New option ALL | |||
| TD queue requests | CHANGED: New option ALL | |||
| TS queue requests | CHANGED: New option ALL |