Release Notes

This document provides important information about the CICS® IA Version 5.3 plug-in that might not be available in the product.

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What’s new in this release?

The CICS IA Version 5.3 plug-in adds further enhancements:

  • The CICS IA perspective contains a new IA Navigation view for improved usability.
  • New scenario-based collections where the CICS IA options that are required are set, depending on the type of collection required.
  • There are a number of new DB2® stored procedures, which assist with application onboarding.
  • Improved resource visualization.
  • Support for IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS®, Version 5.3.

The What’s New topic in the CICS IA plug-in help documentation describes the new and changed items in more detail. To display the topic, click Help > Help Contents > CICS IA Plug-in User Guide > What’s new in the CICS IA Version 5.3 plug-in.

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System requirements and prerequisites

The CICS IA Version 5.3 plug-in must be installed in the CICS Explorer® Version 5.3.

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Downloading and installing the CICS IA plug-in

To download the CICS IA plug-in, follow the instructions for installing the IBM Explorer for z/OS. For more information, see Download Eclipse Tools
The CICS IA plug-in can be installed as one of the available packages.

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Getting started

When CICS Explorer restarts, the CICS Explorer perspective is displayed. To open the CICS IA perspective, either click the Open Perspective toolbar icon, or click Window > Open Perspective > Other in the main menu. In the Open Perspective window, select CICS IA then click OK.

If you are not familiar with the CICS IA plug-in, help documentation is integrated with the product and includes instructions to configure a connection and get started. To display
this information for the CICS IA plug-in, click Help > Help Contents > CICS IA plug-in User Guide > Getting started with the CICS IA plug-in.

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Known issues and limitations

The following limitations exist in the CICS IA plug-in:

  • If your DB2 connection is secured by using SSL, the following limitations apply:
    • It is not possible to bypass certificate management with the DB2/JDBC driver. Therefore, the Bypass certificate management checkbox in the certificate preference page is ignored for this type of connection.
    • The DB2/JDBC driver automatically chooses a default Secure Socket protocol of TLSv1. It is not possible to overwrite this protocol by using The Advanced socket configuration in the certificate preference page.

  • CICS IA does not provide support for CICS TS VSE/ESA.

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