Documentation in PDF
A set of CICS® documentation, in the form of manuals, is available in PDF. These manuals typically bring together information from various sections of IBM® Documentation. This section provides links to the PDF manuals for all in-service releases of CICS TS for z/OS® and information about how the manuals are distributed and updated.
For details of PDF manuals for CICS TS 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4, see End-of-service documentation. For PDF manuals of even older versions, see Archived CICS documentation.
As a consequence of the way that the online documentation and PDFs are structured and processed, note that the number that is allocated to tables and figures (for example, Table 1: or Figure 2:) in PDF can be different from the number that is allocated to the equivalent table in IBM Documentation. The title and the content of the table is the same.
Which PDF manuals are kept up to date?
From CICS TS 5.4, all PDF manuals for the release, except the manuals that are shown as stabilized, are updated at the same time as any updates to the online documentation in IBM Documentation. The preface of each PDF manual shows the date when it was last updated.
Some PDFs are stabilized. These PDFs are still available but not updated. Changes to documentation lists the stabilized PDFs and they are indicated in the table below.
What file name does each manual have?
Before CICS TS 5.4, PDF manuals have 8-character file names: for example, dfhe4h00 represented What's New. From CICS TS 5.4, PDF manuals have descriptive file names: for example, whats-new_pdf represents What's New.
Manual numbers were required when the PDFs were published in IBM Publications Center. Now that they are published here in IBM Documentation, the manual number is no longer used.
Where do you find the PDF manuals?
Individual PDF manuals are available for download directly from IBM Documentation. A .zip file of all the manuals for a release is available using the links shown in Table 1. You can also select the separate full set of Stabilized PDF manuals.
| Publication | 6.1 | 5.6 | 5.5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full set | Version 6.1 | Version 5.6 | Version 5.5 |
| Administering CICS | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| API (EXEC CICS) Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Business Transaction Services (stabilized) | See V5.4 | See V5.4 | See V5.4 |
| C++ OO Class Libraries | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex® SM Administration | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex SM Application Programming Guide | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex SM Application Programming Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex SM CMCI REST API Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex Concepts and Planning | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex SM Managing Business Applications | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex SM Managing Resource Use (stabilized) | See V5.4 | See V5.4 | See V5.4 |
| CICSPlex SM Managing Workloads | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex SM Messages and Codes | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex SM Monitor Views Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex SM Operations Views Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex SM Problem Determination Guide | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex SM Resource Tables Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICSPlex SM Web User Interface Guide (stabilized) | See V5.4 | See V5.4 | See V5.4 |
| CICS Codes | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Configuring CICS TS for z/OS | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Data Areas | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Db2® Guide | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Debugging Tools Interfaces Reference (stabilized) | See V5.4 | See V5.4 | See V5.4 |
| Developing CICS Applications | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Developing CICS System Programs | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Diagnosis Reference (stabilized) | See V5.4 | See V5.4 | See V5.4 |
| Distributed Transaction Programming Guide (stabilized) | See V5.4 | See V5.4 | See V5.4 |
| External Interfaces Guide (stabilized) | See V5.4 | See V5.4 | See V5.4 |
| Front End Programming Interface User's Guide (stabilized) | See V5.4 | See V5.4 | See V5.4 |
| Global User Exit Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| IMS DB Control Guide | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Installing CICS TS for z/OS | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Intercommunication Guide | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Internet Guide (stabilized) | See V5.4 | See V5.4 | See V5.4 |
| Java™ Applications in CICS | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| CICS Messages | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Monitoring Data Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Performance Guide | V6.1
See also Monitoring Data Reference and Statistics Reference. |
V5.6
See also Monitoring Data Reference and Statistics Reference. |
V5.5
See also Monitoring Data Reference and Statistics Reference. |
| Performance Report | V5 | ||
| Program Directory (base) | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Program Directory (activation module, base) | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Program Directory (activation module, Developer Trial) | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Program Directory (activation module, Value Unit Edition) | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| RACF® Security Guide (stabilized) | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Resource Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| REXX for CICS TS User Guide and Reference | V1.1 | V1.1 | V1.1 |
| Shared Data Tables Guide | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Statistics Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Supplied Transactions Reference | V6.1. See also Administering CICS. | V5.6. See also Administering CICS. | V5.5. See also Administering CICS. |
| System Initialization Parameter Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| System Programming Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Trace Entries (stabilized) | See V5.4 | See V5.4 | See V5.4 |
| Troubleshooting CICS | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Upgrading CICS TS for z/OS | V6.1 | V6.1 | V6.1 |
| Using CICS Service Flow Runtime (stabilized) | See V5.6 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Using EXCI with CICS | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Using IBM MQ with CICS | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Using Node.js with CICS | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Utilities Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| Web Services Guide | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| What's New | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |
| XPI Function Reference | V6.1 | V5.6 | V5.5 |