What's new in CICS® IA Version 6.1

CICS® IA Version 6.1 continues to support a wide range of capabilities and fully supports new CICS Transaction Server 6.3. Building on previous releases, CICS® IA Version 6.1 contains updates to reflect those commands for which CICS Transaction Server 6.3 has updated the threadsafe status allowing more applications to run without requiring a switch to QR TCB mode.

Export Report into HTML File Format

CICS IA has Threadsafe and Affinity reports stored and displayed through eclipse views under the Reports section in the IA Navigation view. This feature provides an option to export the respective Threadsafe and Affinity reports into HTML file format. For more information refer to help available on the CICS IA plug-in, Help > Help Contents > CICS IA User Plug-in guide.

Comparison of Resources

CICS IA transactions are associated with multiple resources named Programs, Transactions, Mapset, condition, text, etc. This feature provides an option to compare these resources. For more information refer to help available on the CICS IA plug-in, Help > Help Contents > CICS IA User Plug-in guide.

CICS IA VS Code Extension

CICS® IA 6.1 introduces a brand new vscode extension which integrates with the ZOWE explorer. Most of the important features of the Eclipse client are now available on the vscode extension. This will be enhanced further in the upcoming releases.

CICS IA Web Application

CICS® IA 6.1 introduces a new web client, where users can access the CICS IA features via a web interface. This client supports a small set of important features for now, and will be enhanced further in upcoming releases. Users can download the CICS IA Web application here.

Show the command EXEC CICS START with USERID parameter

Change the Command flow function as “START USERID” and function ID as “1009” for command EXEC CICS START with USERID parameter.

New Currency Support

  • z/OS 3.1 Support :

    Now you can install CICS® IA 6.1 on z/OS 3.1. For more details on changes in IBM z/OS V3R1.0, refer to IBM z/OS 3.1.0 documentation.

  • Db2 13

    CICS® IA 6.1 supports Db2 13. For more details on Db2 13, refer to Db2 13 Documentation.

New or changed commands in CICS® IA 6.1 collector

The support for a number of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS commands is added to CICS® IA 6.1. These CICS commands are intercepted by the dependency collector. Review the details to assess the new function and whether the changes might affect your CICS IA system.

Commands added to CICS® IA 6.1

CICS® IA 6.1 includes the support for the following CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS commands. The commands are listed in alphabetical order. For more information, see the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Documentation.

ASSIGN

  • GMEXITOPT

CHANGE

  • PASSWORD
  • PHRASE

COLLECT STATISTICS

  • NOTFND

CREATE

  • DB2ENTRY

ENABLE PROGRAM

  • GAEXECUTABLE
  • TAEXECUTABLE

EXTRACT STATISTICS

  • NOTFND
  • POLICY

GETMAIN

  • EXECUTABLE

GETMAIN64

  • EXECUTABLE

INQUIRE

  • ASSOCIATION
  • DB2ENTRY
  • FEATUREKEY
  • POLICY
  • POLICYRULE
  • SECDISCOVERY
  • SECRECORDING
  • STORAGE
  • STORAGE64
  • SUBPOOL
  • SYSTEM
  • SYSTEM (GRPLIST)
  • TAGS
  • TASK
  • TERMINAL(TNHOST)
  • TRANCLASS (PURGEACTION)

PERFORM

  • JVMSERVER
  • SECDISCOVERY WRITE
  • SHUTDOWN
  • SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE

PUT CONTAINER (CHANNEL)

  • PREPEND

PUT64 CONTAINER

  • PREPEND

QUERY

  • SECURITY

RUN TRANSID

  • NOSTART

SET

  • ASSOCIATION USERCORRDATA
  • DB2ENTRY
  • SECDISCOVERY
  • SECRECORDING
  • SYSTEM (SDTMEMLIMIT)
  • TAGS REFRESH
  • TASK (SRRSTATUS)
  • TRANCLASS (PURGEACTION)
  • XMLTRANSFORM

SIGNON

  • CHANGETIME
  • DAYSLEFT
  • EXPIRYTIME
  • INVALIDCOUNT
  • LASTUSETIME

START ATTACH

  • NOSTART

START BREXIT

  • NOSTART

START CHANNEL

  • NOCHECK
  • PROTECT

VERIFY

  • PASSWORD
  • PHRASE

WEB OPEN

  • URIMAP

WRITE OPERATOR

  • CONSNAME