Changes to samples

This section summarizes the changes to sample programs, sample resource definitions, sample service routines, and sample files across supported CICS® releases. Use this information to plan the impact of upgrading from one release to another.

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.

Table 1. Changes to sample programs by release of CICS TS
Name 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
DFH$DB2T   CHANGED: The TYPE within JOURNALMODEL is now specified as a CHAR(5) attribute.    
DFH$FORA   CHANGED: Resources are now alphabetically ordered.    
DFH$FORC   CHANGED: Resources are now alphabetically ordered and resource attributes that are COBOL reserved words are prefixed with RDO- .    
DFH$FORP   CHANGED: Resources are now alphabetically ordered. Compiled version now supplied.    
DFH$MOLS CHANGED: New options URIMAP and WEBSERVC added to control statement RESOURCE.   CHANGED: UNLOAD supports DFHRMI fields in its output.  
DFH$UMOD       CHANGED: DFHDTCV and DFHDTSVC removed as they are no longer eligible to reside in the LPA/ELPA.
DFHNJIVP NEW      
DFH0QRCP   NEW: Associated with transaction QRCP. This sample program demonstrates how to obtain and calculate the QR TCB CPU / Dispatch ratio and display a message when the ratio is less than a specified percentage.    
DFH0STEP        
Table 2. Changes to sample files by release of CICS TS
File name 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
/samples/cicstags/cicstags.yaml     NEW: Example of CICS region tagging file.  
/security/ciphers/defaultciphers.xml     NEW: Example default cipher suite specification file. CHANGED: Cipher suites that use NULL, Triple DES (3DES) and RC4 encryption are removed from the file, including:
  • 003B - TLS_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA256
  • C001 - TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_NULL_SHA
  • C002 - TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
  • C003 - TLS_ECDH_ECDSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
  • C006 - TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_NULL_SHA
  • C007 - TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
  • C008 - TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
  • C010 - TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA
  • C011 - TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
  • C012 - TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
  • C00B - TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_NULL_SHA
  • C00C - TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
  • C00D - TLS_ECDH_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA

If you have your own unchanged copy of defaultciphers.xml in USSCONFIG/security/ciphers from a previous release, it is recommended that you copy the new version from USSHOME/security/ciphers to USSCONFIG/security/ciphers.
/security/ciphers/allvalidciphers.xml     NEW: Example list of all valid ciphers.