Changes to CEMT

This section summarizes the changes to the CICS® main terminal transaction, CEMT, across supported CICS releases. Use this information to plan the impact of upgrading from one release to another.

For information about changes to other transactions, see Changes to CICS transactions.

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 CEMT changes across supported releases of CICS TS

Table 1 gives you a list of new, changed, deprecated, and removed CEMT commands in each supported CICS TS release.

The links provided for new CEMT commands take you to their reference information in the product documentation.

The links provided for the other, changed CEMT commands take you to the relevant tables below where brief descriptions of the changes are provided.

Table 1. Highlights of CEMT changes across supported releases of CICS TS
5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2

CEMT INQUIRE CONNECTION

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE CONNECTION

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2

NEW OPTION: AIDCOUNT

CHANGED: CONNECTION (data-value) now accepts the name of the local system.

      

CEMT INQUIRE DB2ENTRY

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE DB2ENTRY

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
    NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS  

CEMT INQUIRE DSAS

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE DSAS

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
    NEW OPTIONS: PCDSASIZE, PUDSASIZE, EPCDSASIZE, EPUDSASIZE in support of Instruction Execution Protection.

REMOVED OPTION: ETDSASIZE

  

CEMT INQUIRE DUMPDS

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE DUMPDS

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
  CHANGED: New value ALL for SWITCHSTATUS option    

CEMT INQUIRE MONITOR

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE MONITOR

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
NEW OPTIONS: URIMAPLIMIT and WEBSERVLIMIT      

CEMT INQUIRE SYDUMPCODE

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE SYDUMPCODE

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
  NEW OPTIONS: CHANGEAGENT, CHANGEAGREL, CHANGETIME , CHANGEUSRID, DEFINESOURCE, DEFINETIME, INSTALLAGENT, INSTALLTIME and INSTALLUSRID    

CEMT INQUIRE SYSTEM

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE SYSTEM

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
NEW OPTIONS:
  • AIDCOUNT
  • LASTCOLDTIME
  • LASTEMERTIME
  • LASTINITTIME
  • LASTWARMTIME
  • PLTPIUSR

CHANGED: The display now shows status fields in a single column split across multiple screens.

 CHANGED: New value TABLEONLY returned for DUMPING option NEW OPTIONS:
  • SDTMEMLIMIT
  • SRRTASKS
 NEW OPTION: GRPLIST

CEMT INQUIRE TASK

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE TASK

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
    NEW OPTION: SRRSTATUS  

CEMT INQUIRE TCLASS

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE TCLASS

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
    NEW OPTION: PURGEACTION

CEMT INQUIRE TCPIPSERVICE

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE TCPIPSERVICE

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
  NEW OPTION: OPTIONSPGM    

CEMT INQUIRE TRDUMPCODE

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE TRDUMPCODE

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
  NEW OPTIONS: CHANGEAGENT, CHANGEAGREL, CHANGETIME , CHANGEUSRID, DEFINESOURCE, DEFINETIME, INSTALLAGENT, INSTALLTIME and INSTALLUSRID    

CEMT INQUIRE TSQUEUE / TSQNAME

Related reference: CEMT INQUIRE TSQUEUE / TSQNAME

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
  NEW OPTION: TSMODEL    

CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN

Related reference: CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2>
NEW OPTION: PLTNAME     CHANGED:

CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN and CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE enhanced to support the shutdown of CMAS and MAS regions.

CEMT PERFORM STATISTICS

Related reference: CEMT PERFORM STATISTICS

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
NEW OPTIONS: NODEJSAPP and POLICY NEW OPTIONS: SECURITY and USER NEW OPTION: CIPHER  

CEMT SET CONNECTION

Related reference: CEMT SET CONNECTION

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.      

CEMT SET DB2ENTRY

Related reference: CEMT SET DB2ENTRY

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2>
    NEW OPTION: SHARELOCKS  

CEMT SET DSAS

Related reference: CEMT SET DSAS

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
    CHANGED: The DSAs that are covered by DSALIMIT and EDSALIMIT include the new DSAs that are never protected from instruction execution.  

CEMT SET DUMPDS

Related reference: CEMT SET DUMPDS

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
  CHANGED: New value ALL for SWITCHSTATUS option    

CEMT SET MONITOR

Related reference: CEMT SET MONITOR

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
NEW OPTIONS: URIMAPLIMIT and WEBSERVLIMIT      

CEMT SET SYSTEM

Related reference: CEMT SET SYSTEM

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
  CHANGED: New value TABLEONLY supported for DUMPING option. NEW OPTION: SDTMEMLIMIT  

CEMT SET TASK

Related reference: CEMT SET TASK

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.   NEW OPTION: SRRSTATUS  

CEMT SET TCLASS

Related reference: CEMT SET TCLASS

5.5 5.6 6.1 6.2
    NEW OPTION: PURGEACTION