Changes to the CICS utilities

This section summarizes the changes to the CICS-supplied utilities across supported CICS® releases. Use this information to plan the impact of upgrading from one release to another.
Table 1. Changes to CICS utilities, by release of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Utility V3.2 V4.1 V4.2 V5.1 V5.2 V5.3
DFH0STAT CHANGED:
  • Displays 4-digit hours in time fields, and time to six decimal places (down to 1 microsecond)
  • New report for LIBRARY resources
 CHANGED:
  • Data Tables Storage report includes storage totals for each data table in the report.
  • New parameter, DPLLIMIT, in the System Status Report
  • Changes for printing: three panels for selecting reports to be printed, new COBOL modules, changes to selection of statistics.
 CHANGED: Uses the INQUIRE TEMPSTORAGE command, which is subject to command-security checking CHANGED: Storage above 2 GB report includes new fields that relate to 64-bit storage use in the GDSA. CHANGED: DFH0STAT does not report any private resources for applications that are deployed on platforms, and it does not identify programs that are declared as application entry points.  
DFH0STXD   NEW        
DFHCSDUP   CHANGED:
  • MIGRATE withdrawn (4.1)
  • Support for definition signature fields on EXTRACT sample programs: DFH$CRFA, DFH$CRFP, DFH0CRFC, DFH$FORA, DFH$FORP, DFH0FORC, DFH0CBDC, DFH$DB2T and DFH$SQLT
  • New option: SIGSUMM on LIST,
   CHANGED: Support for changes to CSD resource definitions   CHANGED:
  • Report data sets produced by the LIST function of DFHCSDUP now include release information for the CSD
  • New options: BEFORE and AFTER on ADD, resource type on COPY
DFHCSVCU       NEW    
DFHDUxxx CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier
DFHJAIU (JVM Application Isolation Utility)       REMOVED    
DFHMEU       REMOVED    
DFHPDxxx CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier
DFHSTUP   CHANGED: New parameter, DPLLIMIT, in Interval, End of Day, Requested, and Summary reports for transaction resource monitoring.   CHANGED: Maximum number of CICS regions (APPLIDs) that the DFHSTUP utility can process is increased from 520 to 2000. CHANGED: Support for new statistics  
DFHTUxxx CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier CHANGED: Renamed with new release identifier
The DFH0IPCC migration utility           CHANGED: creates USERAUTH attribute on the IPCONN definition if a CONNECTION has ATTACHSEC values of LOCAL, IDENTIFY, or VERIFY.
DFHDPLOY           NEW: provides a set of commands that can be used in a script to deploy, undeploy, and set the state of CICS applications and CICS bundles.
EUYXENF           CHANGED: shows the job ID or task ID or each connection to the ESSS, and the level of the ESSS program.