Changes to CEMT

This section summarizes the changes to the CICS® main terminal transaction, CEMT, across supported CICS releases. Use this information to plan the impact of upgrading from one release to another.

For information about changes to other transactions, see Changes to CICS transactions.

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 CEMT changes across supported releases of CICS TS

Table 1 gives you a list of new, changed, deprecated, and removed CEMT commands in each supported CICS TS release.

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

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

Changes to CEMT by release of CICS TS

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CEMT DISCARD
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
NEW: CEMT DISCARD MQMONITOR      
CEMT INQUIRE CONNECTION
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
 

NEW OPTION: AIDCOUNT

CHANGED: CONNECTION (data-value) now accepts the name of the local system.

   

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CEMT INQUIRE DB2ENTRY
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
      NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS

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CEMT INQUIRE DSAS
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
      NEW OPTIONS: PCDSASIZE, PUDSASIZE, EPCDSASIZE, EPUDSASIZE in support of Instruction Execution Protection.

REMOVED OPTION: ETDSASIZE

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CEMT INQUIRE DSNAME
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
NEW OPTION: RREPL      

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CEMT INQUIRE DUMPDS
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
    CHANGED: New value ALL for SWITCHSTATUS option  

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CEMT INQUIRE EPADAPTER
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
CHANGED: Support added for the new DSIE XML format.      

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CEMT INQUIRE MONITOR
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
  NEW OPTIONS: URIMAPLIMIT and WEBSERVLIMIT    

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CEMT INQUIRE SYDUMPCODE
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
NEW OPTIONS: DSPLIST and JOBLIST   NEW OPTIONS: CHANGEAGENT, CHANGEAGREL, CHANGETIME , CHANGEUSRID, DEFINESOURCE, DEFINETIME, INSTALLAGENT, INSTALLTIME and INSTALLUSRID  

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CEMT INQUIRE SYSTEM
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
  NEW OPTIONS: AIDCOUNT, LASTCOLDTIME, LASTEMERTIME, LASTINITTIME, LASTWARMTIME and PLTPIUSR

CHANGED: The display now shows status fields in a single column split across multiple screens.

CHANGED: New value TABLEONLY returned for DUMPING option NEW OPTION: SDTMEMLIMIT
      NEW OPTION: SRRTASKS

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CEMT INQUIRE TASK
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
      NEW OPTION: SRRSTATUS

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CEMT INQUIRE TCPIPSERVICE
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
    NEW OPTION: OPTIONSPGM  

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CEMT INQUIRE TRDUMPCODE
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
    NEW OPTIONS: CHANGEAGENT, CHANGEAGREL, CHANGETIME , CHANGEUSRID, DEFINESOURCE, DEFINETIME, INSTALLAGENT, INSTALLTIME and INSTALLUSRID  

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CEMT INQUIRE TSQUEUE / TSQNAME
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
    NEW OPTION: TSMODEL  

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CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
NEW OPTION: RESTART NEW OPTION: PLTNAME    

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CEMT PERFORM STATISTICS
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
NEW OPTIONS: MQMONITOR and ASYNCSERVICE NEW OPTIONS: NODEJSAPP and POLICY NEW OPTIONS: SECURITY and USER NEW OPTION: CIPHER

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CEMT SET CONNECTION
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
  CHANGED: CONNECTION (data-value) now accepts the name of the local system. For the local system entry, the only valid options are CANCEL and FORCECANCEL.    

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CEMT SET DB2ENTRY
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
      NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS

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CEMT SET DISPATCHER
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
CHANGED: RUNAWAY option accepts a new lower limit of 250      

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CEMT SET DSAS
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
      CHANGED: The DSAs that are covered by DSALIMIT and EDSALIMIT include the new DSAs that are never protected from instruction execution.

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CEMT SET DSNAME
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
NEW OPTION: RREPL      

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CEMT SET DUMPDS
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
    CHANGED: New value ALL for SWITCHSTATUS option  

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CEMT SET MONITOR
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
  NEW OPTIONS: URIMAPLIMIT and WEBSERVLIMIT    

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CEMT SET SYDUMPCODE
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
NEW OPTIONS: DSPLIST and JOBLIST      

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CEMT SET SYSTEM
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
CHANGED: RUNAWAY option accepts a new, lower limit of 250.   CHANGED: New value TABLEONLY supported for DUMPING option. NEW OPTION: SDTMEMLIMIT

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CEMT SET TASK
5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1

CHANGED with APAR PI98569: CICS processing of a task purge or forcepurge request is enhanced to ensure that a Db2® cancel thread command is issued to cancel a thread that is active in Db2 at the time the task that is using the thread is purged or forcepurged.

CHANGED: CICS processing of a task purge or forcepurge request is enhanced to ensure that a Db2 cancel thread command is issued to cancel a thread that is active in Db2 at the time the task that is using the thread is purged or forcepurged.   NEW OPTION: SRRSTATUS

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