CICSPlex SM management of CICS releases

This release of CICSPlex® SM can be used to control CICS® systems that are directly connected to it.

For this release of CICSPlex SM, the connectable CICS systems are:

You can use this release of CICSPlex SM to control systems Start of changerunning supported releases of CICSEnd of change that are connected to, and managed by, your previous release of CICSPlex SM. However, if you have any directly-connectable release levels of CICS, as listed above, that are connected to a previous release of CICSPlex SM, you are strongly recommended to migrate them to the current release of CICSPlex SM, to take full advantage of the enhanced management services. See the CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Migration from CICS TS Version 2.3 for information on how to do this.

Table 1 shows which supported CICS systems can be directly connected to which releases of CICSPlex SM.

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Table 1. Directly-connectable CICS systems by CICSPlex SM release
CICS system CICSPlex SM component of CICS TS 3.1 CICSPlex SM component of CICS TS 2.3 CICSPlex SM component of CICS TS 2.2 CICSPlex SM component of CICS TS 1.3
CICS TS 3.1 Yes Start of changeNoEnd of change No No
CICS TS 2.3 Yes Yes No No
CICS TS 2.2 Yes Yes Yes No
CICS TS 1.3 Yes Yes Yes Yes
TXSeries 4.3.0.4 No Yes Yes No
TXSeries 5.0 No Yes Yes No
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