v2.2.1

What's New

• Added new SIT parameters from CICS TS 6.3 (#177)

Dependency changes

• Removed requests library and used Ansible supplied Request (#179)

Security Fixes

• Bumped minimum version of xmltodict to 0.15.0 to address CVE-2025-9375 (#181)

v2.2.0

Release Summary

Support for Z Open Automation Utilities 1.3.x and ibm_zos_core 1.10+

Major Changes

• Removed support for Z Open Automation Utilities 1.2.x and ibm_zos_core 1.9.x (#163).
• Update compatibility of the collection to Z Open Automation Utilities 1.3.x and ibm_zos_core 1.10+ (#163).

Minor Changes

• Remove usage of templar, and replace with simple pattern matching (#169).

Bugfixes

• region_jcl - Use ZOAU API to write JCL to a data set, so that sequential data sets are allocated properly. The resulting data set can now be submitted from ISPF. (#170).

v2.1.1

Bug fixes

Slacken requirement constraints in requirements.txt to represent compatible versions (#160)

Security Fixes

Bump minimum version of urllib3 to 1.26.19 to address CVE-2024-37891 (#161)

v2.1.0

General Availability of CICS provisioning modules.

New modules released:

• aux_temp_storage - for the CICS auxiliary temporary storage data set. This module was initially released as auxiliary_temp with Version 1.1.0-beta.4. The module is changed to aux_temp_storage in Version 2.1.0.

• aux_trace - for the CICS auxiliary trace data sets. This module was initially released as trace with Version 1.1.0-beta.4. The module is changed to aux_trace in Version 2.1.0.

• csd - for the CICS system definition data set. This module was initially released with Version 1.1.0-beta.4.

• global_catalog - for the CICS global catalog data set. This module was initially released with Version 1.1.0-beta.4.

• local_request_queue - for the CICS local request queue data set. This module was initially released with Version 1.1.0-beta.3.

• td_intrapartition - for the CICS transient data intrapartition data set. This module was initially released as intrapartition with Version 1.1.0-beta.4. The module is changed to td_intrapartition in Version 2.1.0.

• transaction_dump - for the CICS transaction dump data sets. This module was initially released with Version 1.1.0-beta.4.

• region_jcl - Create a CICS startup JCL data set. This module replaces start_cics, which was released with Version 1.1.0-beta.5. region_jcl is significantly different from start_cics in function. region_jcl creates a data set that contains the startup JCL, but doesn't perform the actual startup processing.

• stop_region - Stop a CICS region. This module was initially released as stop_cics with Version 1.1.0-beta.5. The module is changed to stop_region in Version 2.1.0. In Version 2.1.0, stop_region supports a new input parameter, job_name so that you can use the job name, which is typically the CICS's APPLID, to identify a running CICS region.

v2.0.0

Breaking Changes:

• Python 2.7 is no longer supported as the managed node runtime

v1.0.6

Bug Fixes:

• Allows CPSM Scope and Context to contain the following special characters

v1.0.5

• Support creating an Execution Environment containing the ibm_zos_cics collection with ansible-builder.

v1.0.4

• Provide variables for all modules in one go using Ansible’s group module defaults support. The group name for the CMCI modules is cmci_group.

• Prevent cmci_get from failing if no records are found via the fail_on_nodata option. The default value is true if not specified.

v1.0.3

• Updated timeout support on requests to be configurable via the timeout option. The default value is 30 seconds if not specified

• Improve sanitisation and validation of parameters.

• Added support for CMCI Feedback on failed CMCI Requests.

v1.0.1

Fix some documentation issues on Hub, and include some missing documentation about requirements