Changes to resource definitions
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 and changed resource definitions in each supported CICS TS release. The links take you to the tables that describe changes across releases by specific resource definitions.
Table 2 lists new and changed CICS-supplied resource definition groups in each supported CICS TS release. The links take you to the tables that describe changes across releases by specific groups.
Table 43 lists changes to compatibility groups across supported CICS TS releases.
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Changes to resource definitions by release of CICS TS
Table 3 through Table 10 describe changes to specific resource definitions, by release of CICS TS. These changes might affect user-defined resource definitions in user-defined groups.
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- DB2CONN
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Table 3. Changes to DB2CONN by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: CICS now uses a command thread when CICS attempts to cancel a Db2® thread as part of purge or forcepurge processing of a CICS task.
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- DB2ENTRY
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Table 4. Changes to DB2ENTRY by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW ATTRIBUTE: SHARELOCKS (APAR PH47996 required) Back to Highlights of resource definition changes across releases or Index.
- DUMPCODE
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Table 5. Changes to DUMPCODE by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW: To define attributes for transaction dump codes and system dump codes
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- MQMONITOR
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Table 6. Changes to MQMONITOR by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: One or more symbolic parameters, &applid. or &APPLID., can be used anywhere in the QNAME value to identify the APPLID of a CICS region. Any user-defined character strings &applid. or &APPLID. will be replaced by the APPLID of the local region when the MQMONITOR is installed. This will facilitate generic use of this resource.
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- TCPIPSERVICE
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Table 7. Changes to TCPIPSERVICE by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW ATTRIBUTE: OPTIONSPGM CHANGED: When PROTOCOL(HTTP) and SSL(YES) are specified, the TCPIPSERVICE attribute CIPHERS defaults to
defaultciphers.xml
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- TDQUEUE
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Table 8. Changes to TDQUEUE by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW ATTRIBUTE: JOBUSERID Back to Highlights of resource definition changes across releases or Index.
- TRANCLASS
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Table 9. Changes to TRANCLASS by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: The set of allowed characters for a transaction class name is expanded to be the same as that supported for a transaction name.
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- TRANSACTION
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Table 10. Changes to TRANSACTION by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2> CHANGED ATTRIBUTES: - The default value of SPURGE and TPURGE is changed to YES.
- The default value of TASKDATALOC is changed to ANY.
CHANGED: The set of allowed characters for a transaction class name is expanded to be the same as that supported for a transaction name.
CHANGED: The default values of CMDSEC and RESSEC are changed to YES.
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- URIMAP
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Table 11. Changes to URIMAP by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED with APAR PH44683: Added support for enabling multiple client URIMAPs that point to the same endpoint (that is, the same host, port and path) in a CICS region. CHANGED with APAR PH44683: Added support for enabling multiple client URIMAPs that point to the same endpoint (that is, the same host, port and path) in a CICS region. CHANGED: Added support for enabling multiple client URIMAPs that point to the same endpoint (that is, the same host, port and path) in a CICS region.
Changes to CICS-supplied resource definition groups by release of CICS TS
Table 12 through Table 41 describes changes to specific supplied resource definition groups, by release of CICS TS. It does not include compatibility groups DFHCOMPxxx. To view changes to compatibility groups by CICS TS release, see Table 43.
- DFH$DB2
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Table 12. Changes to DFH$DB2 by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: DB2ENTRY definition has a new attribute SHARELOCKS and specifies SHARELOCKS(NO) by default.
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- DFH$SOT
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Table 13. Changes to DFH$SOT by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: The CIPHERS value for TCPIPSERVICE HTTPSSL is changed to
defaultciphers.xml
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- DFH$STAT
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Table 14. Changes to DFH$STAT by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: New program DFH0QRCP
New transaction QRCP
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- DFH$XSD
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Table 15. Changes to DFH$XSD by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW GROUP Back to Highlights of resource definition changes across releases or Group index.
- DFHBMS
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Table 16. Changes to DFHBMS by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Several transactions are removed from this group. You no longer need to install these transactions because they are now automatically installed.
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- DFHCLNT
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Table 17. Changes to DFHCLNT by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Transaction CCIN is removed from this group. You no longer need to install this transaction because it is now automatically installed.
CHANGED: TRANCLASS definition DFHCOMCL now specifies PURGEACTION(ABEND).
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- DFHCMAC
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Table 18. Changes to DFHCMAC by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Transaction CMAC is removed from this group because it's changed to a category 3 transaction.
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- DFHDBCTL
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Table 19. Changes to DFHDBCTL by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Transaction CDBT is changed from SPURGE(NO) to SPURGE(YES).
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- DFHEDF
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Table 20. Changes to DFHEDF by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: TRANCLASS definitions DFHEDFTC and DFHEDFTO now specify PURGEACTION(ABEND).
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- DFHHARDC
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Table 21. Changes to DFHHARDC by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Transaction CSPP is removed from this group. You no longer need to install this transaction because it is now automatically installed.
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- DFHINDT
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Table 22. Changes to DFHINDT by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: TRANCLASS definition DFHTCIND now specifies PURGEACTION(ABEND).
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- DFHIPECI
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Table 23. Changes to DFHIPECI by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Transaction CIEP is removed from this group. You no longer need to install this transaction because it is now automatically installed.
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- DFHISC
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Table 24. Changes to DFHISC by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Several transactions are removed from this group. You no longer need to install these transactions because they are now automatically installed.
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- DFHISCQ
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Table 25. Changes to DFHISCQ by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: TRANCLASS definition DFHTCQPX now specifies PURGEACTION(ABEND).
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- DFHISCT
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Table 26. Changes to DFHISCT by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: TRANCLASS definitions DFHTCLQ2 and DFHTCLSX now specify PURGEACTION(ABEND).
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- DFHJAVA
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Table 27. Changes to DFHJAVA by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Transaction CJSA is changed from SHUTDOWN(DISABLED) to SHUTDOWN(ENABLED).
Transaction CJSU is changed from SHUTDOWN(DISABLED) to SHUTDOWN(ENABLED).
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- DFHMQ
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Table 28. Changes to DFHMQ by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: New tsmodel DFHCKBR
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- DFHOPER
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Table 29. Changes to DFHOPER by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: New program DFHLDMHT
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- DFHPIPE
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Table 30. Changes to DFHPIPE by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: DFHWSATH, DFHWSATR, DFHWSATX and DFHPIRS program definitions are moved to this group. You no longer need to install your own versions of these program definitions because DFHPIPE is part of DFHLIST.
New transaction CPIW, a direct clone of CPIH, which is used to handle WS-AT protocol messages.
CHANGED: - Programs added: IXMI58DA, IXMI58D1, IXMI58IN, IXMI58UC, IXM4C58
- Programs removed: IXMI38DA, IXMI38D1, IXMI38IN, IXMI38UC, IXM4C57
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- DFHPSSGN
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Table 31. Changes to DFHPSSGN by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Transaction CPSS is removed from this group. You no longer need to install this transaction because it is now automatically installed.
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- DFHRSEND
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Table 32. Changes to DFHRSEND by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Transaction CSRS is removed from this group. You no longer need to install this transaction because it is now automatically installed.
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- DFHSECD
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Table 33. Changes to DFHSECD by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW: New journal DFHSECD for security discovery
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- DFHSECR
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Table 34. Changes to DFHSECR by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW: New journal DFHSECR for security request recording
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- DFHSPI
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Table 35. Changes to DFHSPI by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Transaction CATR is removed from this group. You no longer need to install this transaction because it is now automatically installed.
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- DFHSTAND
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Table 36. Changes to DFHSTAND by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Several transactions are removed from this group. You no longer need to install these transactions because they are now automatically installed.
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- DFHTCL
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Table 37. Changes to DFHTCL by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: The following TRANCLASS definitions now specify PURGEACTION(ABEND):- DFHTCL01 through DFHTCL010
- DFHTSDEL
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- DFHVTAM
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Table 38. Changes to DFHVTAM by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 Back to Highlights of resource definition changes across releases or Group index.
- DFHVTAMP
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Table 39. Changes to DFHVTAMP by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: Several transactions are removed from this group. You no longer need to install these transactions because they are now automatically installed.
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- DFHWSAT
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Table 40. Changes to DFHWSAT by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: DFHWSATH, DFHWSATR, DFHWSATX and DFHPIRS program definitions are moved to group DFHPIPE. See also DFHPIPE.
URIMAP DFHRSURI now specifies TRANSACTION(CPIW) instead of CPIH. This is the URIMAP used to match inbound WS-AT protocol messages.
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- DFHWU
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Table 41. Changes to DFHWU by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 CHANGED: New transaction CWDP
CHANGED: Removed Doctemplates: DFHWUIPI, DFHWIUP1, DFHWUIP2, DFHWUIP3, DFHWUIP3, DFHWUIP4, DFHWIUP5, DFHWUIP6
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- DFHXSD
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Table 42. Changes to DFHXSD by release 5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2 NEW GROUP Back to Highlights of resource definition changes across releases or Group index.
Changes to compatibility groups DFHCOMPxxx by release of CICS TS
This table describes changes to compatibility groups DFHCOMPxxx, by release of CICS TS. For more information about each compatibility group, see CSD compatibility between different CICS releases.
Group | 5.5 | 5.6 | 6.1 | 6.2 | |
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DFHCOMPJ | NEW GROUP | ||||
DFHCOMPK | NEW GROUP | ||||
DFHCOMK2 | NEW GROUP |
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