Changes to feature toggles
Feature toggling is supported from CICS® TS 5.4. This section summarizes changes to feature toggles across supported CICS releases. Use this information to plan the impact of upgrading from one release to another.
For a list of available feature toggles and their capabilities in a particular CICS TS release, refer to the system management reference in the product documentation; for example, for CICS TS Version 6, see Feature toggles.
For configuration information, see Specifying feature toggles.
- Processing and configuration of feature toggles
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta DEPRECATED: Group-level feature toggle configuration, which will be removed in a future release. CHANGED: You can now implement region-level feature toggle configurations.
- Feature toggle
com.ibm.cics.cmci.jvmserver={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with default of false
.CHANGED: The default is changed to
true
. If you have not upgraded to the CMCI JVM server, follow the upgrade instruction in Upgrading CICSPlex SM.REMOVED: Replaced by the CMCIPROVIDER WUI initialization parameter.
com.ibm.cics.container.hash={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW REMOVED Hashing always used.
com.ibm.cics.cpsm.bas.largecicsplex={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR PH19761: It is disabled by default. NEW
CHANGED with APAR PH26781: The default is changed from
true
tofalse
.CHANGED: The default is changed from false
totrue
. com.ibm.cics.cpsm.wlm.botrsupd.enabled={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH14812 NEW with APAR: PH14812 NEW com.ibm.cics.cpsm.wlm.surgeresist={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH30768 NEW with APAR: PH30768 NEW com.ibm.cics.db2.origindata={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH49408 NEW with APAR: PH49408 NEW with APAR: PH52668 NEW com.ibm.cics.db2.sharelocks={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH39766 NEW with APAR: PH39766 REMOVED Replaced by the DB2ENTRY attribute SHARELOCKS.
com.ibm.cics.dpl.32kcommarea={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW com.ibm.cics.ds.freeussprocesses={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH27111 NEW with APAR: PH27111 NEW with APAR: PH56193 com.ibm.cics.http.options.handler={program_name}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH16992 REMOVED You can specify the name of the HTTP Options handler program in the OPTIONSPGM attribute of the TCPIPSERVICE resource definition.
com.ibm.cics.mvssm.mon.interval={0|60,1-60}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW REMOVED Replaced by the ZOSMONINTERVAL system initialization parameter.
com.ibm.cics.mvssm.sos24.minavailable.contiguous={32,1-1024}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW REMOVED Replaced by the ZOSSOS24UNALLOC system initialization parameter.
com.ibm.cics.mvssm.sos24.minavailable.total={64,1-1024}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW REMOVED Replaced by the ZOSSOS24UNALLOC system initialization parameter.
com.ibm.cics.mvssm.sos31.minavailable.contiguous={64,1-16384}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW REMOVED Replaced by the ZOSSOS31UNALLOC system initialization parameter.
com.ibm.cics.mvssm.sos31.minavailable.total={128,1-16384}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW REMOVED Replaced by the ZOSSOS31UNALLOC system initialization parameter.
com.ibm.cics.mvssm.sos.wait={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW REMOVED Replaced by the ZOSSOSNEWTCB system initialization parameter.
com.ibm.cics.resourceoverrides.file={name.yaml}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH30590 REMOVED Replaced by RESOVERRIDES system initialization parameter.
com.ibm.cics.rls.delete.ridfld={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH07596 NEW com.ibm.cics.sdt.support.precicsts62={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW com.ibm.cics.sm.iep={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW com.ibm.cics.spool.defaultjobuser={region|task}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW REMOVED Replaced by the INTRDRJOBUSER system initialization parameter.
com.ibm.cics.spool.surrogate.check={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW REMOVED When the XUSER=YES system initialization parameter is in effect, surrogate user checking is always performed.
com.ibm.cics.tls.minimumkeystrength={1024|2048}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH50175 NEW with APAR: PH50175 NEW with APAR: PH51719 CHANGED: The default can now be changed from 1024 to 2048.
com.ibm.cics.web.defaultcipherfile={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR PH45703: Available and applies to outbound HTTP requests using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN or EXEC CICS INVOKE SERVICE commands that do not specify CIPHERS or URIMAP. NEW with APAR PH38091: Available and applies to outbound HTTP requests using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN or EXEC CICS INVOKE SERVICE commands that do not specify CIPHERS or URIMAP. NEW: Available and applies to outbound HTTP requests using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN or EXEC CICS INVOKE SERVICE commands that do not specify CIPHERS or URIMAP. CHANGED with APAR PH60212: Extended to apply to URIMAP resources with no ciphers specified.
CHANGED: Extended to apply to URIMAP resources with no ciphers specified. com.ibm.cics.web.hsts.includesubdomains={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH55369 NEW with APAR: PH55369 NEW with APAR: PH55370 NEW com.ibm.cics.web.hsts.includesubdomains.TCPIPS={true|false}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH55369 NEW with APAR: PH55369 NEW with APAR: PH55370 NEW com.ibm.cics.web.hsts.max-age=seconds
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH55369 NEW with APAR: PH55369 NEW with APAR: PH55370 NEW com.ibm.cics.web.hsts.max-age.TCPIPS={seconds|-1}
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 beta NEW with APAR: PH55369 NEW with APAR: PH55369 NEW with APAR: PH55370 NEW