| APAR | Capability |
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| PI51499 | The basic mapping support (BMS) now supports a new user replaceable module (URM) DFHBMSX (3270 datastream validation program). This module is called to enable validation of 3270 data streams in BMS RECEIVE MAP commands. |
| PI52819, PI87181, and PI87695 | CICS TS now provides support for IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 8. |
| PI60388 and PI73184 | CICS uses system autoinstall to install program definitions for Language Environment® as required, removing the need to maintain definitions in the CEE CSD group. |
| PI76965 | CICS TS now supports IBM® Health Checker for z/OS to help simplify and automate the identification of potential configuration problems. CICS TS currently provides three health checker rules that define best practice for CICS TS security. If a CICS region becomes non-compliant with these security best practices, a warning message is issued so that you can take corrective actions. |
| A new CICS system initialization parameter XPTKT is provided, which specifies whether CICS checks whether a user can generate a PassTicket for the user's userID by using the EXEC FEPI REQUEST PASSTICKET command. | |
| PI83667 | CICS TS now supports system rules in CICS policies. You can define system rules in CICS policies to monitor the state of system resources, or the
overall health of a CICS system. System rules define an
automated action to perform (issue a message or emit a CICS
event) when something of interest happens in a CICS system.
Examples are a resource state change, a threshold that is crossed, or an unusual system state or
action. Policy system rules provide equivalent or enhanced capability to system events, and support for system events is deprecated. Use system rules instead. Following the introduction of system rules, policy threshold rules are renamed to policy task rules, and policy thresholds are renamed to policy conditions. |
| PI88500 | If you use CICS Explorer® Version 5.4.0.6 or later and you use the policy definition editor to work with policy rules, you can now define items of static data to be emitted with policy events and specify a user-defined name for the event. |
| PI92486 | From z/OS V2.2, VSAM provides a dynamic buffer addition capability that allows for the addition of extra buffers for an LSR pool if no buffer is available for a given VSAM request. For CICS, it is preferable to retry the request rather than allow uncontrolled expansion of an LSR pool, so dynamic buffer addition is not enabled for CICS LSR pools. |
| PI98569 | The SET TASK command has been enhanced such that CICS processing of task purge or forcepurge requests will attempt to cancel active DB2 threads used by CICS tasks that are being purged or forcepurged. If CICS detects that the task being purged or forcepurged has a thread active in DB2, it will issue a DB2 cancel thread command to cancel the request in DB2 before initiating the purging of the CICS task. This enhancement ensures that the purge does not cause problems for DB2 and that the DB2 updates are safely backed out. To cancel the DB2 thread in DB2 used by the task being purged or forcepurged, CICS uses a DB2 IFI command to issue the cancel thread command. This IFI request uses a command thread defined as part of the DB2CONN. The ID passed to DB2 needs to have the relevant authority to issue cancel thread requests; therefore, you should review the COMAUTHTYPE or COMAUTHID settings of the DB2CONN. Processing of the purge or forcepurge request will continue even if the cancel thread request is unsuccessful. Note: This capability requires APAR PI92893 on DB2 Version 11 or higher.
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| IBM z/OS Provisioning Toolkit (z/OS PT) is available
for use with CICS TS. z/OS PT is a simple command-line utility that uses the IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF)
REST API to rapidly provision and deprovision CICS and other
z/OS development environments. System programmers can set up the environments, authorize access to individuals or teams, and set provisioning controls and limits. Then, application developers can use the command-line interface to quickly provision and deprovision environments without needing mainframe administration skills or authority. For
details, see |
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| OA56111, OA56806 and OA56807 | Support for REXX for CICS internal tracing and a new online help utility are now provided. To
use the help utility, you must load the relevant data sets, as described in Creating the help files. The REXX for CICS Transaction Server product
documentation is provided in this Knowledge Centre, and in the online help. REXX for CICS Transaction Server (REXX for CICS) is the new name for REXX
for CICS/ESA:
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