Changes to resource definitions

This section summarizes the changes to the resource definitions and CICS®-supplied resource definition groups across supported CICS TS releases. Use this information to plan the impact on resources 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.

Note: The REMOVED content in Table 3 through Table 42 have been moved to compatibility groups DFHCOMPxxx; previous versions of modified resources are also in the compatibility groups.

Highlights of changes across supported releases of CICS TS

Table 1 lists new and changed resource definitions in each supported CICS TS release. The links take you to the tables that describe changes across releases by specific resource definitions.

Table 2 lists new and changed CICS-supplied resource definition groups in each supported CICS TS release. The links take you to the tables that describe changes across releases by specific groups.

Table 43 lists changes to compatibility groups across supported CICS TS releases.

Table 1. Highlights of changes to CICS resource definitions across supported CICS TS releases
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
DB2CONN MQCONN MQINI(DFHMQINI) DEPRECATED MQMONITOR NEW PROGRAM	DB2CONN TDQUEUE TRANCLASS TRANSACTION	DUMPCODE NEW MQMONITOR TCPIPSERVICE TRANSACTION	DB2ENTRY TCPIPSERVICE URIMAP

Table 2. Highlights of changes to CICS resource definition groups across supported CICS TS releases
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
DFHCOMPI NEW DFH$EXCI DFH$NACT DFHEDF DFHEP DFHLE NEW DFHPGAIP DFHWEB	None	DFH$STAT DFHMQ DFHWU	DFH$DB2 DFH$SOT DFHCOMPJ NEW DFHDBCTL DFHJAVA DFHOPER DFHPIPE DFHSECR NEW DFHWSAT

Changes to resource definitions by release of CICS TS

Table 3 through Table 13 describe changes to specific resource definitions, by release of CICS TS. These changes might affect user-defined resource definitions in user-defined groups.

Index

A - M	N - Z
DB2CONN DB2ENTRY DUMPCODE MQCONN MQINI(DFHMQINI) MQMONITOR	PROGRAM TCPIPSERVICE TDQUEUE TRANCLASS TRANSACTION

DB2CONN

Table 3. Changes to DB2CONN by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED with APAR: PI98569: CICS now uses a command thread when CICS attempts to cancel a Db2® thread as part of purge or forcepurge processing of a CICS task.	CHANGED: CICS now uses a command thread when CICS attempts to cancel a Db2 thread as part of purge or forcepurge processing of a CICS task.

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DB2ENTRY

Table 4. Changes to DB2ENTRY by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			NEW ATTRIBUTE: SHARELOCKS (APAR PH47996 required)

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DUMPCODE

Table 5. Changes to DUMPCODE by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
		NEW: To define attributes for transaction dump codes and system dump codes

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MQCONN

Table 6. Changes to MQCONN by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED ATTRIBUTE: INITQNAME

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MQINI(DFHMQINI)

Table 7. Changes to MQINI by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
DEPRECATED: Replaced with MQMONITOR(DFHQMINI) See Review the use of MQCONN in Upgrading CICS regions for upgrade advice.

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MQMONITOR

Table 8. Changes to MQMONITOR by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
NEW: To define attributes for IBM® MQ message consumers		CHANGED: One or more symbolic parameters, `&applid.` or `&APPLID.`, can be used anywhere in the QNAME value to identify the APPLID of a CICS region. Any user-defined character strings `&applid.` or `&APPLID.` will be replaced by the APPLID of the local region when the MQMONITOR is installed. This will facilitate generic use of this resource.

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PROGRAM

Table 9. Changes to PROGRAM by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: The default value of DATALOCATION is changed from BELOW to ANY.

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TCPIPSERVICE

Table 10. Changes to TCPIPSERVICE by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
		NEW ATTRIBUTE: OPTIONSPGM	CHANGED: When PROTOCOL(HTTP) and SSL(YES) are specified, the TCPIPSERVICE attribute CIPHERS defaults to `defaultciphers.xml`.

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TDQUEUE

Table 11. Changes to TDQUEUE by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
	NEW ATTRIBUTE: JOBUSERID

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TRANCLASS

Table 12. Changes to TRANCLASS by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
	CHANGED: The set of allowed characters for a transaction class name is expanded to be the same as that supported for a transaction name.

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TRANSACTION

Table 13. Changes to TRANSACTION by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
	CHANGED ATTRIBUTES: The default value of SPURGE and TPURGE is changed to YES. The default value of TASKDATALOC is changed to ANY.	CHANGED: The set of allowed characters for a transaction class name is expanded to be the same as that supported for a transaction name.

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URIMAP

Table 14. Changes to URIMAP by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED with APAR PH44683: Added support for enabling multiple client URIMAPs that point to the same endpoint (that is, the same host, port and path) in a CICS region.	CHANGED with APAR PH44683: Added support for enabling multiple client URIMAPs that point to the same endpoint (that is, the same host, port and path) in a CICS region.	CHANGED with APAR PH44683: Added support for enabling multiple client URIMAPs that point to the same endpoint (that is, the same host, port and path) in a CICS region.	CHANGED: Added support for enabling multiple client URIMAPs that point to the same endpoint (that is, the same host, port and path) in a CICS region.

Changes to CICS-supplied resource definition groups by release of CICS TS

Table 15 through Table 42 describes changes to specific supplied resource definition groups, by release of CICS TS. It does not include compatibility groups DFHCOMPxxx. To view changes to compatibility groups by CICS TS release, see Table 43.

Index

Group name	Group name	Group name
DFH$DB2 DFH$EXCI DFH$NACT DFH$SOT DFH$STAT DFHBMS DFHCLNT DFHCOMPI DFHCOMPI DFHCOMPJ	DFHHARDC DFHDBCTL DFHEP DFHIPECI DFHISC DFHJAVA DFHLE DFHMQ DFHOPER	DFHPGAIP DFHPSSGN DFHRSEND DFHSECR DFHSPI DFHSTAND DFHVTAMP DFHWEB DFHWU

DFH$DB2

Table 15. Changes to DFH$DB2 by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: DB2ENTRY definition has a new attribute SHARELOCKS and specifies SHARELOCKS(NO) by default.

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DFH$EXCI

Table 16. Changes to DFH$EXCI by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: New program DFH$AXNS

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DFH$NACT

Table 17. Changes to DFH$NACT by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: File ACCTNAM now specifies RECORDSIZE(80) and KEYLENGTH(18).

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DFH$SOT

Table 18. Changes to DFH$SOT by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: The CIPHERS value for TCPIPSERVICE HTTPSSL is changed to `defaultciphers.xml`.

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DFH$STAT

Table 19. Changes to DFH$STAT by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
		CHANGED: New program DFH0QRCP New transaction QRCP

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DFHBMS

Table 20. Changes to DFHBMS by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: Several transactions have been removed from this group. You no longer need to install these transactions since they are now automatically installed.

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DFHCLNT

Table 21. Changes to DFHCLNT by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: Transaction CCIN has been removed from this group. You no longer need to install this transaction since it is now automatically installed.

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DFHDBCTL

Table 22. Changes to DFHDBCTL by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: Transaction CDBT is changed from SPURGE(NO) to SPURGE(YES).

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DFHEDF

Table 23. Changes to DFHEDF by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: New TRANCLASS definition: DFHEDFTO New transactions: CEDG and CEDY

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DFHEP

Table 24. Changes to DFHEP by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: New program: DFHECEAQ New transaction: CEPR

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DFHHARDC

Table 25. Changes to DFHHARDC by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: Transaction CSPP has been removed from this group. You no longer need to install this transaction since it is now automatically installed.

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DFHIPECI

Table 26. Changes to DFHIPECI by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: Transaction CIEP has been removed from this group. You no longer need to install this transaction since it is now automatically installed.

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DFHISC

Table 27. Changes to DFHISC by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: Several transactions have been removed from this group. You no longer need to install these transactions since they are now automatically installed.

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DFHJAVA

Table 28. Changes to DFHJAVA by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: Transaction CJSA is changed from SHUTDOWN(DISABLED) to SHUTDOWN(ENABLED). Transaction CJSU is changed from SHUTDOWN(DISABLED) to SHUTDOWN(ENABLED).

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DFHLE

Table 29. Changes to DFHLE by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
NEW GROUP

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DFHMQ

Table 30. Changes to DFHMQ by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
		CHANGED: New tsmodel DFHCKBR

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DFHOPER

Table 31. Changes to DFHOPER by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: New program DFHLDMHT

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DFHPGAIP

Table 32. Changes to DFHPGAIP by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: The default program for program autoinstall DFHPGAPG is changed from DATALOCATION(BELOW) to DATALOCATION(ANY).

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DFHPIPE

Table 33. Changes to DFHPIPE by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: DFHWSATH, DFHWSATR, DFHWSATX and DFHPIRS program definitions are moved to this group. You no longer need to install your own versions of these program definitions because DFHPIPE is part of DFHLIST. New transaction CPIW, a direct clone of CPIH, which is used to handle WS-AT protocol messages.

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DFHPSSGN

Table 34. Changes to DFHPSSGN by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: Transaction CPSS has been removed from this group. You no longer need to install this transaction since it is now automatically installed.

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DFHRSEND

Table 35. Changes to DFHRSEND by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: Transaction CSRS has been removed from this group. You no longer need to install this transaction since it is now automatically installed.

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DFHSECR

Table 36. Changes to DFHSECR by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			NEW: New journal DFHSECR for security request recording

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DFHSPI

Table 37. Changes to DFHSPI by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: Transaction CATR has been removed from this group. You no longer need to install this transaction since it is now automatically installed.

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DFHSTAND

Table 38. Changes to DFHSTAND by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: Several transactions have been removed from this group. You no longer need to install these transactions since they are now automatically installed.

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DFHVTAMP

Table 39. Changes to DFHVTAMP by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: Several transactions have been removed from this group. You no longer need to install these transactions since they are now automatically installed.

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DFHWEB

Table 40. Changes to DFHWEB by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: Program removed: DFHWBC00 Program DFHWBUN now specifies CONCURRENCY(THREADSAFE).

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DFHWSAT

Table 41. Changes to DFHWSAT by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: DFHWSATH, DFHWSATR, DFHWSATX and DFHPIRS program definitions are moved to group DFHPIPE. See also DFHPIPE. URIMAP DFHRSURI now specifies TRANSACTION(CPIW) instead of CPIH. This is the URIMAP used to match inbound WS-AT protocol messages.

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DFHWU

Table 42. Changes to DFHWU by release
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
		CHANGED: New transaction CWDP

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Changes to compatibility groups DFHCOMPxxx by release of CICS TS

Table 43 describes changes to compatibility groups DFHCOMPxxx, by release of CICS TS.

Table 43. Changes to compatibility groups DFHCOMPxxx by release
Group	5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
DFHCOMPI	NEW GROUP
DFHCOMPJ				NEW GROUP