Changes to CICS SPI

This section summarizes the changes to system programming interface commands across supported 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.

Highlights of changes across supported releases of CICS TS

Table 1 lists new, changed, or removed SPI commands in each supported CICS TS release.

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

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

Tag Service indicates external changes introduced by service APARs.

Table 1. Highlights of CICS SPI changes across supported releases of CICS TS
5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
NEW: CREATE DUMPCODE PERFORM JVMSERVER	NEW: INQUIRE POLICY INQUIRE POLICYRULE INQUIRE SECRECORDING INQUIRE STORAGE64 INQUIRE TAG SET ASSOCIATION USERCORRDATA SET SECRECORDING SET TAGS REFRESH	NEW: INQUIRE SECDISCOVERY PERFORM SECDISCOVERY WRITE SET SECDISCOVERY	NEW: INQUIRE OTEL SET OTEL
CHANGED: DISCARD TRANSACTION EXTRACT STATISTICS INQUIRE ASSOCIATION Service INQUIRE DUMPDS INQUIRE SYSDUMPCODE INQUIRE SYSTEM INQUIRE TCPIPSERVICE INQUIRE TRANDUMPCODE INQUIRE TSQUEUE / TSQNAME PERFORM STATISTICS SET DUMPDS SET SYSTEM SET TRANSACTION	CHANGED: CREATE DB2ENTRY ENABLE PROGRAM EXTRACT STATISTICS INQUIRE ASSOCIATION INQUIRE DB2ENTRY INQUIRE FEATUREKEY INQUIRE STORAGE INQUIRE SUBPOOL INQUIRE SYSTEM INQUIRE TASK PERFORM STATISTICS SET DB2ENTRY SET SYSTEM SET TASK SET TRANSACTION	CHANGED: COLLECT STATISTICS CREATE TRANSACTION EXTRACT STATISTICS INQUIRE SYSTEM INQUIRE TERMINAL INQUIRE TRANCLASS PERFORM SHUTDOWN SET TRANCLASS	CHANGED: INQUIRE TRANSACTION SET TRANSACTION

Changes to CICS SPI commands by release of CICS TS

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COLLECT STATISTICS

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
		CHANGED: New NOTFND with RESP2 value of 3, which indicates that the performance class data for a task is not available. This new NOTFND with RESP2 value of 3 replaces the previous NOTFND with RESP2 value of 1 when the performance class data for a task is not available.

CREATE DB2ENTRY

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
	NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS

CREATE TRANSACTION

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
		CHANGED: The default values of CMDSEC and RESSEC are changed to YES.

DISCARD TRANSACTION

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED: Transactions beginning with C can now be discarded as long as the name of the initial program does not begin with DFH, EYU, or CJ`x` (where `x` is A through J).

ENABLE PROGRAM

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
	NEW OPTIONS: GAEXECUTABLE TAEXECUTABLE

EXTRACT STATISTICS

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
NEW OPTIONS: SECURITY USER	NEW OPTION: POLICY with new SUBRESTYPE option POLICYRULE	CHANGED: New NOTFND with RESP2 value of 3, which indicates that the performance class data for a task is not available. This new NOTFND with RESP2 value of 3 replaces the previous NOTFND with RESP2 value of 1 when the performance class data for a task is not available.

INQUIRE ASSOCIATION

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED with APAR PH42306: Enhanced support for Liberty. The association data user ID value now reflects the final user ID value used in secure Liberty transactions, instead of the initial user ID.	CHANGED: Enhanced support for Liberty. The association data user ID value now reflects the final user ID value used in secure Liberty transactions, instead of the initial user ID.

INQUIRE CONNECTION

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3

INQUIRE DB2ENTRY

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
	NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS

INQUIRE DUMPDS

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED: New cvda SWITCHALL on SWITCHSTATUS option

INQUIRE FEATUREKEY

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
	NEW OPTION: FILEPATH

INQUIRE STORAGE

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
	CHANGED: New values PCSDSA, EPCDSA, PUDSA, and EPUDSA on the DSANAME option

INQUIRE SUBPOOL

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
	CHANGED: New values PCSDSA, EPCDSA, PUDSA, and EPUDSA on the DSANAME option. ETDSA is removed.

INQUIRE SYSDUMPCODE

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

INQUIRE SYSTEM

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED: New value TABLEONLY returned for DUMPING option	NEW OPTIONS: EPCDSA EPUDSA PCSDSA PUDSA SDTMEMLIMIT SRRTASKS REMOVED OPTION: ETDSA	NEW OPTION: GRPLIST

5.6

6.1

6.2

CICS TS 6.3

CHANGED:

New value TABLEONLY returned for DUMPING option

NEW OPTIONS:

EPCDSA
EPUDSA
PCSDSA
PUDSA
SDTMEMLIMIT
SRRTASKS

REMOVED OPTION: ETDSA

NEW OPTION: GRPLIST

INQUIRE TASK

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
	CHANGED: New SRRSTATUS option to show the security request recording status of SRRACTIVE or SRRINACTIVE.

INQUIRE TCPIPSERVICE

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
NEW OPTION: OPTIONSPGM

INQUIRE TERMINAL

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
		NEW OPTION: TNHOST

INQUIRE TRANCLASS

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
		NEW OPTION: PURGEACTION

INQUIRE TRANDUMPCODE

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

INQUIRE TRANSACTION

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

INQUIRE TSQUEUE / TSQNAME

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
NEW OPTION: TSMODEL

PERFORM SHUTDOWN

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
		CHANGED: PERFORM SHUTDOWN and PERFORM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE enhanced to support the shutdown of CMAS and MAS regions.

PERFORM STATISTICS

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

SET DB2ENTRY

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
	NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS CHANGED: New INVREQ RESP2 value of 20

SET DUMPDS

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED: New CVDA, SWITCHALL on SWITCHSTATUS option

SET SYSTEM

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

SET TASK

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
	CHANGED: New SRRSTATUS option to set the security request recording status to SRRACTIVE or SRRINACTIVE.

SET TRANCLASS

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
		NEW OPTION: PURGEACTION New INVREQ RESP2 value of 4, indicating that PURGEACTION has an invalid value.

SET TRANSACTION

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
CHANGED: Transactions beginning with C can now be set disabled as long as the name of the initial program does not begin with DFH, EYU, or CJ`x` (where `x` is A through J).			NEW OPTIONS: OTELEMIT, OTELPROP

SET XMLTRANSFORM

5.6	6.1	6.2	CICS TS 6.3
	CHANGED: New INVREQ RESP2 value of 8, indicating that the XML schema file for the XMLTRANSFORM cannot be found.