We are pleased to let you know that a refreshed CICS open beta is now available for download from:
https://ibm.biz/cicsopenbetaThe development focus for this drop is around the following areas:
- Developer productivity
- Resilience
- Security
- Management.
Feedback is always welcome, so please let us know what you think.
Developer productivity
Maintain CICS resource configuration with application source using the CICS TS resource builder
Improvements to Java getting started documentation
Java annotation now available to define methods to link to OSGi Java applications
Bundle deployment, Multi-Factor Authentication, and advanced CICS Explorer functions supported in single CICS regions
Resilience
Enhanced support for policy statistics
Improved recovery from Logger failures
Security
Support for AT-TLS monitoring
Support for AT-TLS statistics
Enhancements to the Security Request Recording diagnostics reporting tool
Enhancement to information on the ASSIGN command
Simplified diagnosis of sysplex-wide CICS security problems
Simplified diagnosis of TLS security problems
Additional TLS monitoring and statistics
Customization of CICS health checks
Improved security documentation based on scenarios
MFA sign-on from CICS Explorer to a single CICS region
New messages associated with authorization errors to assist in identifying the end user
New protection to guard against executing code in data-only memory
New support for TLS 1.3 and enhanced TLS monitoring
New checks for IBM Health Checker for z/OS
Management
Enhanced CICS event processing support
Enhanced WRITE OPERATOR command
Tagging of CICS regions to identify usage
New ALL option has been added to selected policy task rules
New compound condition system policy rule
Improved temporary storage expiry processing
New system rule type for transaction dump threshold
Increased capacity of shared data tables
Extended short on storage notification
Advanced CICS Explorer functions in single CICS regions
Enhanced performance monitoring
Enhanced diagnostics following a z/OS IPL
Ability to inquire after 64-bit storage belonging to a task
Support for daisy-chaining of non-terminal-related START requests
CICS installation using z/OSMF Software Management
Resource definition overrides
Enhanced shared data tables
Enhanced adapter tracking for CICS Db2 applications
Use of an alternate Liberty installation location
Limit on concurrent TLS handshakes
START CHANNEL support for NOCHECK and PROTECT options
Support for passing XID to Db2
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Nick Garrod
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