Changes to CICS policies

This section summarizes changes to CICS® policies across in-service CICS releases.

If you are upgrading from an end-of-service release, you can find information about the changes that are relevant to those releases in Summary of changes from end-of-service releases.

CICS policies bring together the following two features introduced in earlier CICS TS releases:
  • System events, which are now superseded by policy system rules

    The policy system rule capability was initially introduced in CICS TS 5.4 and made available to earlier CICS TS Version 5 releases by service.

  • CICS policy task threshold rules, which are renamed to policy task rules following the introduction of policy system rules in CICS TS 5.4
Table 1. Changes to policy system rules by release of CICS TS
System rule 5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
All system rules

Support for rule action Set z/OS WLM health open status

     NEW CHANGED with APAR PH58295:

New option to change the WLMHEALTH time interval
All system rules

Support for static data capture items and event names for policy events

 NEW with APAR PI88500 NEW    
AID threshold   NEW    
Bundle available status NEW with APAR PI92806 NEW    
Bundle enable status NEW with APAR PI92806 NEW    
Compound condition       NEW
Db2® connection status NEW      
DBCTL connection status   NEW with APAR PH07632 NEW  
File open status NEW      
File enable status NEW      
IBM® MQ connection status   NEW with APAR PH07632 NEW  
IPIC connection status NEW with APAR PI92806 NEW    
Message NEW      
MRO connection status NEW with APAR PI92806 NEW    
Pipeline enable status   NEW with APAR PH07632 NEW  
Program enable status NEW with APAR PI92806 NEW    
Transaction abend NEW     CHANGED:

The name of the program to which the unhandled transaction abend occurred is now captured and contained in container DFHEP.DATA.00005.
Transaction class tasks NEW      
Transaction dump threshold     NEW with APAR PH34348 NEW
User tasks NEW      
Table 2. Changes to policy task rules by release of CICS TS
Task rule 5.4 5.5 5.6 6.1
All task rules RENAMED: CICS policy task threshold rules are renamed to policy task rules.      
All task rules

Support for setting Transaction ID and User ID conditions for task rules

 NEW with APAR PH26145 NEW with APAR PH26145 NEW with APAR PH26145 NEW
All task rules

Support for static data capture items and event names for policy events

 NEW with APAR PI88500 NEW    
Container storage     NEW with APAR PH29187 NEW
File requests       CHANGED: New option ALL
Storage allocation       CHANGED: New option ALL
Storage requests       CHANGED: New option ALL
TD queue requests       CHANGED: New option ALL
TS queue requests       CHANGED: New option ALL