For the latest information on upgrading to and from any versions of CICS TS, see CICS TS V5.6.

Changes to the CICS management client interface (CMCI)

The CICS® management client interface (CMCI) supports additional CICSPlex® SM and CICS resources, and you can query the resources using external resource names.

The 256-byte limitation on the length of URIs passed across the CMCI is relaxed. The PATH component of the URI is still limited to 256 bytes, but the URI in total can now be up to 64 KB long.

New CICSPlex SM resources supported in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, Version 5 Release 2

No new CICSPlex SM resources were added in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®, Version 5 Release 2.

New CICSPlex SM resources supported in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, Version 5 Release 1

The new supported resources, together with their external resource names for use in CMCI queries, are as follows:

CICSPlex SM resource name External resource name Description
APPLCTN CICSApplication CICS application
APPLDEF CICSApplicationDefinition Definition of a CICS application resource
CRESEPAS CICSTopologyEPAdapterSet Event processing adapter set
EPADSET CICSEPAdapterSet CICS event processing adapter set
EPAINSET CICSEPAdapterinSet CICS event processing adapters in an event processing adapter set
PLATFORM CICSPlatform CICS platform
PLATDEF CICSPlatformDefinition Definition of a CICS platform resource
RULE CICSRule Policy rule information
Parent topic: Changes to CICS externals

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