General Availability of CICS provisioning modules.
New modules released:
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aux_temp_storage - for the CICS auxiliary temporary storage data set. This module was initially released as
auxiliary_temp
with Version 1.1.0-beta.4. The module is changed toaux_temp_storage
in Version 2.1.0. -
aux_trace - for the CICS auxiliary trace data sets. This module was initially released as
trace
with Version 1.1.0-beta.4. The module is changed toaux_trace
in Version 2.1.0. -
csd - for the CICS system definition data set. This module was initially released with Version 1.1.0-beta.4.
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global_catalog - for the CICS global catalog data set. This module was initially released with Version 1.1.0-beta.4.
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local_request_queue - for the CICS local request queue data set. This module was initially released with Version 1.1.0-beta.3.
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td_intrapartition - for the CICS transient data intrapartition data set. This module was initially released as
intrapartition
with Version 1.1.0-beta.4. The module is changed totd_intrapartition
in Version 2.1.0. -
transaction_dump - for the CICS transaction dump data sets. This module was initially released with Version 1.1.0-beta.4.
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region_jcl - Create a CICS startup JCL data set. This module replaces
start_cics
, which was released with Version 1.1.0-beta.5.region_jcl
is significantly different fromstart_cics
in function.region_jcl
creates a data set that contains the startup JCL, but doesn't perform the actual startup processing. -
stop_region - Stop a CICS region. This module was initially released as
stop_cics
with Version 1.1.0-beta.5. The module is changed tostop_region
in Version 2.1.0. In Version 2.1.0,stop_region
supports a new input parameter,job_name
so that you can use the job name, which is typically the CICS's APPLID, to identify a running CICS region.