Changes to CICS monitoring

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

5.5	5.6	6.1	6.2
CHANGED GROUPS: DFHCICS DFHSOCK DFHWEBB DFHWEBC	CHANGED GROUPS: DFHCICS DFHTASK	CHANGED GROUPS: DFHCICS DFHSOCK	CHANGED GROUPS: DFHTASK

Exception class data

5.5	5.6	6.1	6.2
None	CHANGED GROUP: EXCMNPOL	CHANGED GROUPS: EXCMNPOL EXCMNWT	None

Transaction resource class data

5.5	5.6	6.1	6.2
NEW GROUPS: MNR_URIMAP_CIPHER MNR_URIMAP_NAME MNR_URIMAP_WEBOPEN MNR_URIMAP_WEBRECV MNR_URIMAP_WEBSEND MNR_WEBSVC_NAME MNR_WEBSVC_PIPE MNR_WEBSVC_INVK	None	NEW GROUPS: MNR_URIMAP_FLAG MNR_URIMAP_TLSLVL	None

Identity class data

5.5	5.6	6.1	6.2
None	None	None	None

Changes to performance class data, by release of CICS TS

DFHCICS

Table 1. Changes to performance class data in DFHCICS group by release

5.5	5.6	6.1	6.2
CHANGED with APAR: 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 with APAR: 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.

DFHSOCK

Table 2. Changes to performance class data in DFHSOCK group by release

5.5	5.6	6.1	6.2
NEW FIELD: SOCONMSG		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 3. Changes to performance class data in DFHTASK group by release

5.5	5.6	6.1	6.2
	NEW FIELDS: SMMVSSWT XSVFYBAS XSVFYJWT XSVFYKER XSVFYPWD		NEW FIELDS: TCLSTSKS XSNLNACT XSNLNFCT

DFHWEBB

Table 4. Changes to performance class data in DFHWEBB group by release

5.5	5.6	6.1	6.2
NEW FIELDS: WBURIOPN WBURIRCV WBURISND

DFHWEBC

Table 5. Changes to performance class data in DFHWEBC group by release

5.5	5.6	6.1	6.2
NEW FIELD: WBSVINVK

Changes to exception class data, by release of CICS TS

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EXCMNPOL

Table 6. Changes to EXCMNPOL exception class data by release

5.5	5.6	6.1	6.2
	NEW TYPES with APAR: PH29187: Exception resource type CONTAINR PH34348: Exception resource type TRANDUMP	NEW TYPES: Exception resource type CONTAINR Exception resource type TRANDUMP

EXCMNWT

Table 7. Changes to EXCMNWT exception class data by release

5.5	5.6	6.1	6.2
		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

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