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Announcements for CICS Products

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Abstract

You want easy access to the Announcements for CICS Transaction Server for z/OS (CICS TS) and CICS Tools. You would like to know the generally availability (GA) date of a new release of a CICS product and see a summary of the new features. You would also like to know if there have been any updates since general availability.

Content

Click on links in the following sections to be taken to the Announcements for CICS products that are still in support.

The "Planned Availability Data" (also known as "General Availability (GA) date") can be found in the announcements that IBM publishes when a new release is announced. IBM also publishes continuous delivery updates between releases. You can find a summary of the new features along with other information in both types of announcements. 
 
To display the Announcements for any IBM product:
  1. Go to the IBM Software Support Lifecycle home page.
  2. Enter the product name and version, for example "CICS 6.1".
  3. Click Search and all products containing your search terms will display.
  4. Scroll down to the product you are interested in. Or, enter cntl-F to display a search box, then enter the product you want to find and click on the down arrow (to see the next instance). You might have to change the "Items per page" to a higher number and (or) click Next to view additional pages.
  5. Find the date the product became generally available under the column entitled "General availability".
  6. Click the date in the "General availability" column to view the announcement.
  7. Click the desired product in the "Product name" column to display the details page view which also contains the End of Marketing (EOM) date.


Note that products might not all display on the Lifecycle page after the EOS date.







CICS Transaction Server Announcements

 







CICS Tools Announcements

 
   


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Product Synonym

CICS/TS CICS TS CICS Transaction Server CICSBAC CICS BAC BAC CBEP CICS BEP CICSCM CICS CM CICSDA CICS DA CICSIA CICS IA CICSPA CICS PA CICSPM CICS PM CICSVC CICS VC CICSVR CICS VR CICS/VR CICSVT CICS VT CICS/VT LS147 LC141 CICSOTTO CICS OTTO

Document Information

Modified date:
26 March 2024

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