Changes to CICS SPI
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.
Highlights of changes across supported releases of CICS TS
Table 1 lists new, changed, or removed SPI commands in each supported CICS TS release.
The links that are provided for new commands take you to their reference information in the product documentation.
The links that are provided for changed commands take you to the relevant tables below where brief descriptions of the changes are provided.
Tag Service indicates external changes introduced by service APARs.
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Changes to CICS SPI commands by release of CICS TS
View changes by command:
- COLLECT STATISTICS
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: New NOTFND with RESP2 value of 3, which indicates that the performance class data for a task is not available. This new NOTFND with RESP2 value of 3 replaces the previous NOTFND with RESP2 value of 1 when the performance class data for a task is not available.
- CREATE DB2ENTRY
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS - CREATE TRANSACTION
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: The default values of CMDSEC and RESSEC are changed to YES.
- DISCARD TRANSACTION
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Transactions beginning with C can now be discarded as long as the name of the initial program does not begin with DFH, EYU, or CJx (where x is A through J).
- ENABLE PROGRAM
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTIONS: - GAEXECUTABLE
- TAEXECUTABLE
- EXTRACT STATISTICS
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTION: NODEJSAPP NEW OPTIONS: - SECURITY
- USER
NEW OPTION: POLICY with new SUBRESTYPE option POLICYRULE CHANGED: New NOTFND with RESP2 value of 3, which indicates that the performance class data for a task is not available. This new NOTFND with RESP2 value of 3 replaces the previous NOTFND with RESP2 value of 1 when the performance class data for a task is not available.
- INQUIRE ASSOCIATION
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED with APAR PH42306: Enhanced support for Liberty. The association data user ID value now reflects the final user ID value used in secure Liberty transactions, instead of the initial user ID.
CHANGED with APAR PH42306: Enhanced support for Liberty. The association data user ID value now reflects the final user ID value used in secure Liberty transactions, instead of the initial user ID.
CHANGED: Enhanced support for Liberty. The association data user ID value now reflects the final user ID value used in secure Liberty transactions, instead of the initial user ID.
- INQUIRE CONNECTION
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTION: AIDCOUNT CHANGED:
CONNECTION (data-value) now accepts the name of the local system.New CVDA value DYNAMIC added to options CHANGEAGENT and INSTALLAGENT.
New CVDA value NOTAPPLIC added to options ACCESSMETHOD and SERVSTATUS.
- INQUIRE DB2ENTRY
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS - INQUIRE DUMPDS
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: New cvda SWITCHALL on SWITCHSTATUS option - INQUIRE FEATUREKEY
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW: Retrieves the value of a feature toggle. NEW OPTION: FILEPATH - INQUIRE MONITOR
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTIONS: - URIMAPLIMIT
- WEBSERVLIMIT
- INQUIRE NETNAME
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTIONS: - TNADDR
- TNIPFAMILY
- TNPORT
- INQUIRE STORAGE
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: New values PCSDSA, EPCDSA, PUDSA, and EPUDSA on the DSANAME option - INQUIRE SUBPOOL
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: New values PCSDSA, EPCDSA, PUDSA, and EPUDSA on the DSANAME option. ETDSA is removed. - INQUIRE SYSDUMPCODE
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTIONS: - CHANGEAGENT
- CHANGEAGREL
- CHANGETIME
- CHANGEUSRID
- DEFINESOURCE
- DEFINETIME
- INSTALLAGENT
- INSTALLTIME
- INSTALLUSRID
- INQUIRE SYSTEM
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTIONS: - AIDCOUNT
- LASTCOLDTIME
- LASTEMERTIME
- LASTINITTIME
- LASTWARMTIME
- PLTPIUSR
CHANGED: New value TABLEONLY returned for DUMPING option
NEW OPTIONS: - EPCDSA
- EPUDSA
- PCSDSA
- PUDSA
- SDTMEMLIMIT
- SRRTASKS
REMOVED OPTION: ETDSA
NEW OPTION: GRPLIST - INQUIRE TASK
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: New SRRSTATUS option to show the security request recording status of SRRACTIVE or SRRINACTIVE. - INQUIRE TCPIPSERVICE
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTION: OPTIONSPGM - INQUIRE TERMINAL
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTIONS: - TNADDR
- TNIPFAMILY
- TNPORT
NEW OPTION: - TNHOST
- INQUIRE TRANCLASS
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTION: PURGEACTION - INQUIRE TRANDUMPCODE
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTIONS: - CHANGEAGENT
- CHANGEAGREL
- CHANGETIME
- CHANGEUSRID
- DEFINESOURCE
- DEFINETIME
- INSTALLAGENT
- INSTALLTIME
- INSTALLUSRID
- INQUIRE TSQUEUE / TSQNAME
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTION: TSMODEL - INQUIRE WEBSERVICE
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.2 and 4.3. - INQUIRE XMLTRANSFORM
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: MAPPINGLEVEL and MINRUNLEVEL now accept 4.2 and 4.3 - PERFORM SHUTDOWN
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTION: PLTNAME CHANGED: PERFORM SHUTDOWN and PERFORM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE enhanced to support the shutdown of CMAS and MAS regions.
- PERFORM STATISTICS
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTIONS: - NODEJSAPP
- POLICY
NEW OPTIONS: - SECURITY
- USER
NEW OPTION: CIPHER - SET CONNECTION
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: CONNECTION (data-value) now accepts the name of the local system. For the local system entry, the only valid options are CANCEL and FORCECANCEL. - SET DB2ENTRY
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS CHANGED: New INVREQ RESP2 value of 20
- SET DUMPDS
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: New CVDA, SWITCHALL on SWITCHSTATUS option
- SET MONITOR
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTIONS: - URIMAPLIMIT
- WEBSERVLIMIT
- SET SYSTEM
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: New value TABLEONLY supported for DUMPING option.
NEW OPTION: SDTMEMLIMIT - SET TASK
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: CICS processing of a task purge or forcepurge request is enhanced to ensure that a Db2® cancel thread command is issued to cancel a thread that is active in Db2 at the time the task that is using the thread is purged or forcepurged. CHANGED: New SRRSTATUS option to set the security request recording status to SRRACTIVE or SRRINACTIVE. - SET TRANCLASS
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW OPTION: PURGEACTION New INVREQ RESP2 value of 4, indicating that PURGEACTION has an invalid value.
- SET TRANSACTION
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Transactions beginning with C can now be set disabled as long as the name of the initial program does not begin with DFH, EYU, or CJx (where x is A through J).
- SET XMLTRANSFORM
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5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: New INVREQ RESP2 value of 8, indicating that the XML schema file for the XMLTRANSFORM cannot be found.