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. Documentation for all releases of Version 6 is provided together.
HTML documentation
- CICS TS beta
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- CHANGED:
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- Some pages in the Changes between releases section under Upgrading are restructured to use lists instead of tables. Changes are grouped by release and then by type of change.
- CICS TS 6.3
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- NEW:
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- AI-generated search results are available for search queries of 3 words or more in the online documentation.
- CICS TS 6.2
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- NEW:
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- Documentation covers all releases of Version 6. Tags highlight differences between releases.
- Archived IBM® publications that are referenced by some CICS messages, for example, the IBM 3270 Data Stream Programmers Reference, are available for download from Archived CICS documentation.
- Changes to security in the Upgrading section summarizes changes to CICS security, including changes to RACF® classes.
- Stabilization notices and discontinued functions in the Upgrading section summarizes technologies that are stabilized in CICS.
- CHANGED:
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- IBM Knowledge Center-Customer Installed (KC-CI) is replaced by IBM Documentation Offline.
- Trace information is enhanced, including a new trace term topic and a new How it works: Tracing in CICS section. z/OS® trace is now covered in Using z/OS trace for problem determination.
- CICS TS 6.1
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- NEW:
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- IBM Documentation is now automatically translated.
- IBM Documentation Offline is automatically translated.
- Get started with Java in CICS
- How it works: CICS storage has been added to the Fundamentals section.
- CHANGED:
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- IBM Knowledge Center is renamed to IBM Documentation.
- 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.
- CICS TS 5.6
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- NEW:
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- IBM Documentation is automatically translated.
- IBM Documentation Offline is automatically translated.
- The CICS V5 Performance Report, previously published as an IBM Redbook (SG24-8298), is included in the CICS documentation online and in PDF.
- CHANGED:
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- Upgrading information is provided in full in the latest CICS TS product documentation.
PDFs
- CICS TS 6.2
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- NEW:
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- Documentation covers all releases of Version 6. Tags highlight differences between releases.
- Archived IBM publications that are referenced by some CICS messages (for example, the IBM 3270 Data Stream Programmers Reference) are available for download from Archived CICS documentation.
- CICS TS 6.1
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- NEW:
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- New PDF: Security for CICS.
- CHANGED:
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- CICS Messages is now in 3 parts.
- Configuring CICS. The Configuring REXX section is removed from this PDF. The information is contained in REXX for CICS TS User Guide and Reference.
- Diagnosis Reference is split into Component Reference and Domain Reference.
- CICS TS 5.6
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- NEW:
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- NEW PDF: Performance Report
Stabilized
- CICS TS 6.1
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- STABILIZED:
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- The PDF RACF Security Guide is no longer produced but remains available.
- CICS TS 5.6
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- STABILIZED:
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- The PDF Executable Module Reference is no longer produced but remains available.
Deprecated or removed
- CICS TS 6.3
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- Online documentation
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- REMOVED:
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- Using business events to analyze application trends is removed.
- CICS executable modules reference listing is removed.
- References to CICS TS Feature Pack for Dynamic Scripting V2.0 are removed.
- PDFs
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- REMOVED:
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- The PDF Executable Module Reference is no longer produced. The information is found in Diagnosis Reference.
- CICS TS 5.6
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- Online documentation
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- REMOVED:
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- References in the online documentation to z/OS Connect embedded in CICS are removed.