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.

Table 1. Highlights of CICS SPI changes across supported releases of CICS TS
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
NEW: CREATE MQMONITOR DISCARD MQMONITOR INQUIRE MQMONITOR INQUIRE WLMHEALTH SET MQMONITOR SET WLMHEALTH	NEW: INQUIRE FEATUREKEY INQUIRE NODEJSAPP	NEW: CREATE DUMPCODE PERFORM JVMSERVER	NEW: INQUIRE POLICY INQUIRE POLICYRULE INQUIRE SECRECORDING INQUIRE STORAGE64 THREADSAFE INQUIRE TAG SET ASSOCIATION USERCORRDATA SET SECRECORDING SET TAGS REFRESH
CHANGED: EXTRACT STATISTICS INQUIRE ASSOCIATION INQUIRE DSNAME INQUIRE EPADAPTER INQUIRE PROGRAM INQUIRE SYSDUMPCODE INQUIRE WEBSERVICE INQUIRE XMLTRANSFORM PERFORM SHUTDOWN PERFORM STATISTICS SET BUNDLE SET DISPATCHER SET DSNAME SET PROGRAM SET SYSDUMPCODE SET SYSTEM SET TRANSACTION CHANGED with APAR: INQUIRE ASSOCIATION SET TASK	CHANGED: EXTRACT STATISTICS INQUIRE CFDTPOOL THREADSAFE INQUIRE CONNECTION INQUIRE MONITOR INQUIRE NETNAME INQUIRE SYSTEM INQUIRE TERMINAL INQUIRE WEBSERVICE INQUIRE XMLTRANSFORM PERFORM SHUTDOWN PERFORM STATISTICS SET CONNECTION SET MONITOR SET TASK CHANGED with APAR: INQUIRE ASSOCIATION	CHANGED: DISCARD TRANSACTION EXTRACT STATISTICS INQUIRE DUMPDS INQUIRE SYSDUMPCODE INQUIRE SYSTEM INQUIRE TCPIPSERVICE INQUIRE TRANDUMPCODE INQUIRE TSQUEUE / TSQNAME PERFORM STATISTICS SET DUMPDS SET SYSTEM SET TRANSACTION CHANGED with APAR: INQUIRE ASSOCIATION	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
REMOVED: INQUIRE WLPSERVICE

Changes to CICS SPI commands by release of CICS TS

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CREATE DB2ENTRY

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS

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DISCARD TRANSACTION

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
		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).

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ENABLE PROGRAM

Table 2.
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			NEW OPTIONS: GAEXECUTABLE TAEXECUTABLE

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EXTRACT STATISTICS

Table 3.
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
NEW OPTIONS: ASYNCSERVICE LASTRESETABS MQMONITOR	NEW OPTION: NODEJSAPP	NEW OPTIONS: SECURITY USER	NEW OPTION: POLICY with new SUBRESTYPE option POLICYRULE

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INQUIRE ASSOCIATION

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
NEW OPTIONS: PTCOUNT PTSTARTTIME PTTASKID PTTRANSID 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 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 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.

5.4

5.5

5.6

6.1

NEW OPTIONS:

PTCOUNT
PTSTARTTIME
PTTASKID
PTTRANSID

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 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 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.

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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. New CVDA value DYNAMIC added to options CHANGEAGENT and INSTALLAGENT. New CVDA value NOTAPPLIC added to options ACCESSMETHOD and SERVSTATUS.

5.4

5.5

5.6

6.1

NEW OPTION: AIDCOUNT

CHANGED:

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

New CVDA value DYNAMIC added to options CHANGEAGENT and INSTALLAGENT.

New CVDA value NOTAPPLIC added to options ACCESSMETHOD and SERVSTATUS.

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INQUIRE DB2ENTRY

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS

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INQUIRE DSNAME

Table 4.
5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: New CVDA, RREPL on AVAILABILITY option

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INQUIRE DUMPDS

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
		CHANGED: New cvda SWITCHALL on SWITCHSTATUS option

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INQUIRE EPADAPTER

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: New CVDA, DSIE on DATAFORMAT option. New CVDA, TDQUEUE on ADAPTERTYPE option.

5.4

5.5

5.6

6.1

CHANGED:

New CVDA, DSIE on DATAFORMAT option.

New CVDA, TDQUEUE on ADAPTERTYPE option.

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INQUIRE FEATUREKEY

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
	NEW: Retrieves the value of a feature toggle.		NEW OPTION: FILEPATH

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INQUIRE MONITOR

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
	NEW OPTIONS: URIMAPLIMIT WEBSERVLIMIT

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INQUIRE NETNAME

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
	NEW OPTIONS: TNADDR TNIPFAMILY TNPORT

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INQUIRE PROGRAM

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
NEW OPTION: REPLICATION CHANGED: New CVDA value, DYNAMIC on CHANGEAGENT and INSTALLAGENT

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INQUIRE STORAGE

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: New values PCSDSA, EPCDSA, PUDSA, and EPUDSA on the DSANAME option

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INQUIRE SUBPOOL

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: New values PCSDSA, EPCDSA, PUDSA, and EPUDSA on the DSANAME option. ETDSA is removed.

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INQUIRE SYSDUMPCODE

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
NEW OPTIONS: DSPLIST JOBLIST		NEW OPTIONS: CHANGEAGENT CHANGEAGREL CHANGETIME CHANGEUSRID DEFINESOURCE DEFINETIME INSTALLAGENT INSTALLTIME INSTALLUSRID

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INQUIRE SYSTEM

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
	NEW OPTIONS: AIDCOUNT LASTCOLDTIME LASTEMERTIME LASTINITTIME LASTWARMTIME PLTPIUSR	CHANGED: New value TABLEONLY returned for DUMPING option	NEW OPTIONS: EPCDSA EPUDSA PCSDSA PUDSA SDTMEMLIMIT SRRTASKS REMOVED OPTION: ETDSA

5.4

5.5

5.6

6.1

NEW OPTIONS:

AIDCOUNT
LASTCOLDTIME
LASTEMERTIME
LASTINITTIME
LASTWARMTIME
PLTPIUSR

CHANGED:

New value TABLEONLY returned for DUMPING option

NEW OPTIONS:

EPCDSA
EPUDSA
PCSDSA
PUDSA
SDTMEMLIMIT
SRRTASKS

REMOVED OPTION: ETDSA

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INQUIRE TASK

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: New SRRSTATUS option to show the security request recording status of SRRACTIVE or SRRINACTIVE.

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INQUIRE TCPIPSERVICE

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
		NEW OPTION: OPTIONSPGM

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INQUIRE TERMINAL

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
	NEW OPTIONS: TNADDR TNIPFAMILY TNPORT

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INQUIRE TRANDUMPCODE

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
		NEW OPTIONS: CHANGEAGENT CHANGEAGREL CHANGETIME CHANGEUSRID DEFINESOURCE DEFINETIME INSTALLAGENT INSTALLTIME INSTALLUSRID

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INQUIRE TSQUEUE / TSQNAME

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
		NEW OPTION: TSMODEL

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INQUIRE WEBSERVICE

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.1. CHANGED with APAR: MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.2 and 4.3.	CHANGED: MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.2 and 4.3.

5.4

5.5

5.6

6.1

CHANGED:

MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.1.

CHANGED with APAR:

MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.2 and 4.3.

CHANGED: MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.2 and 4.3.

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INQUIRE XMLTRANSFORM

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.1 CHANGED with APAR: MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.2 and 4.3	CHANGED: MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.2 and 4.3

5.4

5.5

5.6

6.1

CHANGED:

MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.1

CHANGED with APAR:

MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.2 and 4.3

CHANGED: MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.2 and 4.3

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PERFORM SHUTDOWN

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
NEW OPTION: RESTART	NEW OPTION: PLTNAME

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PERFORM STATISTICS

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
NEW OPTIONS: ASYNCSERVICE MQMONITOR	NEW OPTIONS: NODEJSAPP POLICY	NEW OPTIONS: SECURITY USER	NEW OPTION: CIPHER

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SET BUNDLE

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
NEW OPTIONS: COPY PHASEIN

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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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SET DB2ENTRY

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS CHANGED: New INVREQ RESP2 value of 20

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SET DISPATCHER

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: RUNAWAY option accepts a new, lower limit of 250.

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SET DSNAME

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: New CVDA, RREPL on AVAILABILITY option

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SET DUMPDS

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
		CHANGED: New CVDA, SWITCHALL on SWITCHSTATUS option

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SET MONITOR

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
	NEW OPTIONS: URIMAPLIMIT WEBSERVLIMIT

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SET PROGRAM

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
NEW OPTION: REPLICATION

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SET SYSDUMPCODE

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
NEW OPTIONS: DSPLIST JOBLIST

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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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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.		CHANGED: New SRRSTATUS option to set the security request recording status to SRRACTIVE or SRRINACTIVE.

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SET TRANSACTION

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
CHANGED: RUNAWAY option accepts a new, lower limit of 250.		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).

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SET XMLTRANSFORM

5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
			CHANGED: New INVREQ RESP2 value of 8, indicating that the XML schema file for the XMLTRANSFORM cannot be found.

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