CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS®, Version 3 Release 1 provides
a number of additional capabilities ...
New installation process
This topic draws your attention to a new installation process for CICS.
EXTRACT STATISTICS command
A new SPI command, EXTRACT STATISTICS, handles
statistics for URIMAP, PIPELINE, and WEBSERVICE resources.
Support for mixed case passwords
When the security manager used with CICS supports the use of mixed case passwords, CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, Version 3 Release 1 does not
convert passwords to uppercase before passing them to the security manager.
Codepage conversion changes
CICS is
enhanced to provide a means of converting between EBCDIC or ASCII and Unicode
data. Conversion can occur in either direction.
Simplified definition of default code pages
The default client or server code pages can be defined in the system
initialization table in order to reduce the number of conversion tables required
to configure a CICSplex.
64-Bit Addressing Toleration changes
CICS can
now provide meaningful information when those tasks, which make use of 64-bit
addressing architecture, abend.