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  • System events, which are now superseded by policy system rules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 / Change 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
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

 CHANGED: New option to change the WLMHEALTH time interval
All system rules

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

 NEW      
AID threshold NEW      
Bundle available status NEW      
Bundle enable status NEW      
Compound condition     NEW  
Db2® connection status        
DBCTL connection status NEW with APAR PH07632 NEW    
File open status        
File enable status        
IBM® MQ connection status NEW with APAR PH07632 NEW    
IPIC connection status NEW      
Message        
MRO connection status NEW      
Pipeline enable status NEW with APAR PH07632 NEW    
Program enable status NEW      
Transaction abend     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 queued tasks       NEW
Transaction class tasks        
Transaction dump threshold   NEW with APAR PH34348 NEW  
Table 2. Changes to policy task rules by release of CICS TS
Task rule / Change 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
All task rules

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

 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      
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