Changes to installing
This section summarizes the changes to installation across supported releases of CICS® TS for z/OS®.
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.
Change | 5.5 | 5.6 | 6.1 | 6.2 | |
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Compatibility groups DFHCOMPK and DFHCOMK2 for sharing CSD with earlier releases | NEW | ||||
Shared Data Table module changes:
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CHANGED | ||||
DFHEITAB and DFHEITBS modules are not LPA eligible. | CHANGED with APAR PH29332 | CHANGED with APAR PH29332 | CHANGED | ||
Removal of DFHIFTG1 and DFHIFTGS installation jobs | REMOVED | ||||
Support for installing maintenance-supplied newest release CICS Type 3 SVC and DFHIRP modules. See Installing newest release CICS Type 3 SVC and DFHIRP modules supplied through maintenance. | CHANGED with APAR PH54814 | CHANGED with APAR PH54814 | CHANGED with APAR PH54840 | ||
Removal of SDFHDLL1 | REMOVED | ||||
The Java™ components that were included within FMID JCI710D at CICS TS 5.4 are moved into the base FMID HCI7200. | CHANGED | ||||
Removed distribution library ADFJMOD and removed library SDFJAUTH. | REMOVED | ||||
DFHALLOC, DFHINST1 and DFHINSTA jobs have been changed to allocate the following PDSs with
BLKSIZE=0 rather than the previous BLKSIZE=400:
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CHANGED | ||||
The STEPLIB DD statement for the hlq.SDFJAUTH library in the CICS startup job stream must be removed. |
CHANGED | ||||
The DFHIFTGS job Optional job, DFHIFTGS, tags the text files in the CICS USSHOME directory with the correct coded character set. |
CHANGED: You have to run this job if you want to use Node.js capabilities. |