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• CICS TS 5.1 announcement letter

SPI commands that alter system configurations are now logged. Identity propagation is extended, and auditing of user IDs that make requests over IP is improved. Information about use of SSL cipher suites, with information on actual and potential use of specialty processors, can help you to tune system performance.

• Auditing of system programming interface commands
  An auditor or system administrator can use this function to monitor the SET, PERFORM, ENABLE, DISABLE, and RESYNC commands for changes made to the CICS system configuration.
• Improved auditing of user IDs
  You can now specify that a full verification request takes place at least once a day when users log in to the CICS region. This process ensures that user IDs record their most recent usage date for requests made over IP.
• Extended identity propagation to include started tasks
  Operators, auditors, and system administrators can see the distributed identity of the user for started tasks.
• Identifying cipher suites used for SSL connections
  A cipher suite is selected during the SSL handshake between a TCP/IP client and server, and it is used for encrypting and decrypting data flowed over the SSL connection. CICS now stores the code for the selected cipher suite in the SMF 110 performance records that relate to an SSL inbound connection.
• CICS monitoring enhancements
  CICS monitoring provides additional performance data and system information to help you to assess the performance of your CICS regions accurately, identify potential bottlenecks, and make informed decisions about hardware and software upgrades and application deployment.
• Status updates during lost locks recovery
  CICS now provides regular status updates while lost locks recovery is taking place. A new message displays the number of data sets that have completed lost locks recovery, and the total number of data sets that require lost locks recovery. These regular updates ensure that users are aware of the progress that is being made during the time of the recovery.
• CICS statistics enhancements
  CICS statistics are enhanced to provide more information that relates to the load, capacity, and performance of the system. This information can aid decisions about vertical and horizontal scalability.

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