Changes to documentation

This section summarizes the changes to the organization or deliverables of CICS® documentation, across supported CICS releases. Use this information to understand significant documentation changes between one release and another.

Table 1. Changes to documentation by release of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Area of documentation	5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
Offline documentation	CHANGED: IBM® Knowledge Center-Customer Installed (KC-CI) is replaced by IBM Documentation Offline. NEW: IBM Documentation Offline is now automatically translated.	CHANGED: IBM Knowledge Center-Customer Installed (KC-CI) is replaced by IBM Documentation Offline. NEW: IBM Documentation Offline is now automatically translated.	CHANGED: IBM Knowledge Center-Customer Installed (KC-CI) is replaced by IBM Documentation Offline. NEW: IBM Documentation Offline is now automatically translated.	CHANGED: IBM Knowledge Center-Customer Installed (KC-CI) is replaced by IBM Documentation Offline. NEW: IBM Documentation Offline is now automatically translated.
	NEW: IBM Documentation is now automatically translated.	NEW: IBM Documentation is now automatically translated.	NEW: IBM Documentation is now automatically translated.	CHANGED: IBM Knowledge Center renamed to IBM Documentation NEW: IBM Documentation is now automatically translated.
Upgrading			NEW: Changes to security section to summarize changes to CICS security, including changes to RACF® classes. NEW: Stabilization notices section to summarize technologies that are stabilized in CICS.
What documentation is available?
CICS Explorer®	CHANGED: CICS Explorer documentation is published independently from the CICS TS documentation.
Fundamentals				NEW: How it works: CICS storage CHANGED after general availability: The reference topics about CICS subpools in CICS DSAs, previously contained in How it works: CICS storage, are moved to System management reference. See Reference: CICS subpools in CICS DSAs.
Performance			NEW: the CICS V5 Performance Report, previously published as an IBM Redbook (SG24-8298) is now included in the CICS documentation online and in PDF.
PDFs	CHANGED: the way that PDFs are structured and delivered: PDFs are delivered in IBM Documentation, not in IBM Publications Center. PDFs no longer have manual numbers. PDFs have descriptive filenames instead of codes. Many PDFs are restructured and renamed. See Documentation in PDFfor details. STABILIZED: the following PDFs are no longer produced. Business Transaction Services CICSPlex® SM Managing Resource Use CICSPlex SM Web User Interface Guide Debugging Tools Interfaces Reference Diagnosis Reference Distributed Transaction Programming Guide External Interfaces Guide Front End Programming Interface User's Guide Internet Guide Trace Entries	NEW: Using Node.js with CICS Using IBM MQ with CICS REXX for CICS TS User Guide and Reference CICSPlex SM CMCI REST API Reference Using CICS Service Flow Runtime	STABILIZED: the following PDF is no longer produced. Using CICS Service Flow Runtime	CHANGED: Configuring CICS TS for z/OS The Configuring REXX section has been removed from this PDF. This information is contained in REXX for CICS TS User Guide and Reference. STABILIZED: the following PDF is no longer produced. RACF Security Guide
z/OS® Connect embedded in CICS			References removed from the documentation.
CICS TS Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting V2.0				References removed from the documentation.
Scenario: Using business events to analyze application trends				Removed from the documentation.