How to find the CICS version?

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Neeraj N
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How to find the CICS version?

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Hi,

Is there a way to find which CICS version we are using our own? Or we just need to ask it to support always.

Thanks,
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Re: How to find the CICS version?

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goggling with transaction to display the cics version will return some useful links...

but beware... using what is suggested there might cause a security violation for using a transaction You are not allowed to

if You have the need to know Your support will be happy to tell You
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Re: How to find the CICS version?

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You could also look at the CICS logs on SDSF. At startup CICS should write a message to the log saying which version it is.
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Re: How to find the CICS version?

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CEMT I SYS

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 	 I SYS                                                                         
  	STATUS:  	RESULTS - OVERTYPE TO MODIFY                                         
    	Aging( 	00000 	)                 Progautoexit( 	IMX004   	)                     
    Akp( 	00200 	)                   Progautoinst( 	Autoactive 	)                   
    Cicstslevel(030100)            Reentprotect(Noreentprot)                    
    Cmdprotect(Cmdprot)            Release(0640)                                
    Db2conn(RCTT1)                 Runaway( 	0009000 	)                           
    Debugtool( 	Nodebug 	)           Scandelay( 	0000 	)                            
    Dfltuser(CICSNON)              Sdtran(CESD)                                 
    Dsalimit( 	06291456 	)           Sosstatus(Notsos)                            
    Dsrtprogram( 	NONE     	)        Storeprotect(Active)                         
    Dtrprogram( 	DFHDYP   	)         Time( 	0001000 	)                              
    Dumping( 	Sysdump 	)             Tranisolate(Inactive) 	                       
    	Edsalimit( 	0083886080 	)                                                     
    Forceqr( 	Noforce 	)                                                          
    Logdefer( 	00005 	)                                                           
    Maxtasks( 	032 	)                                                             
    Mrobatch( 	001 	)                                                             
    Oslevel(020100)                                                             
    Progautoctlg( 	Ctlgnone 	)                                                    
                                                                                
                                                      SYSID=TEST APPLID=ABCDCICS
   RESPONSE: 	NORMAL                             	TIME:  02.27.56  DATE: 11.10.17 
 	PF 	1 	HELP 	      3 	END 	      5 	VAR 	       7 	SBH 	8 	SFH 	9 	MSG 	10 	SB 	11 	SF 	        
and look for Cicstslevel(030100). From above it's CICS 3.1.
Thanks,
Anuj

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Re: How to find the CICS version?

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Thanks Anuj. One of my senior colleague have access to this panel and showed me what you have suggested. In this panel there are many fields which are editable, if I edit them they will have system wide effect?

But if I mistakenly change some field, how can I bring it back to the original? And what would be the effect of the change for the time we took it to change?
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Re: How to find the CICS version?

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if I edit them they will have system wide effect?
That depends upon how you define "system wide". Changes would certainly impact the CICS region you are using; however, in most cases no other CICS region would be impacted. And the default values would be restored when the CICS region is restarted, so if you make a change merely ask your site support group to restart that particular CICS region.
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Re: How to find the CICS version?

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for what stupid reason do You want to clobber the cics settings

again beware
the misuse of privileges is usually cause for lawful termination
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When I tell somebody to RTFM or STFW I usually have the page open in another tab/window of my browser,
so that I am sure that the information requested can be reached with a very small effort 8-)
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