| Release 2.3 | Compatibility with CICS TS 3.1 |
| Release 2.2 | Added the ability to PRINT CAPTURED SCREENS to a CICS printer. Print an entire SPY session from the directory or print a single screen from the index. This function requires the installation of MacKinney Systems CICS HOTPRINT (minimum release 1.2). |
| Added new functionality to CONTENT SENSITIVE sessions. Create a separate, new session from the user supplied content sensitive exit (SPYPSEXT) using the new commarea setting CSRNEWS. | |
| Added a new installation option MAX SCRNSIZE to support sites that produce unusually large 3270 data streams. | |
| Added a new installation option SHARE STORE to provide compatibility with TRANSACTION ISOLATION. | |
| Release 2.1 | Refuse a SPY session with the new installation option SPYEE REFUSE . Turn this feature on to allow the SPYEE to refuse the SPY SESSION. |
| Delete captured screens within a SPY session, delete a single screen or group of screens from a SPY session on the INDEX screen. | |
| Adds the ability to do FINDs within screens - search a SPY session for a character string on the INDEX screen. | |
| Specify a description to associate with a SPY session when starting a SPY session. This description is shown on the directory to help identify the SPY session. | |
| Provides a batch utility to maintain the SPY file. SPY Sessions can be offloaded, purged and restored. | |
| Release 2.0 | Supports OS/390 CICS release 4.1 and up, VSE/ESA CICS TS 1.1 and up. |
| Added the ability to SPY on HTML served out to a browser from CICS (supported in OS/390 on CICS TS 1.3 and up, VSE on CICS TS 1.1 and up). . | |
| Added a user replaceable exit program that allows you to decide what is to be SPYed upon. The exit is provided a variety of information including the content of the screens, terminal id, user id etc. | |
| Added a new Who's On List function to display all terminals currently connected to CICS, including userid and transaction id associated with each terminal. Provides the ability to start a SPY session on any terminal in the list. | |
| Added a new SCREEN LIMIT installation option which limits the number of screens a single SPY session can collect. | |
| Added 3270 controller emulation code to prevent screens from flickering when a SPY session contains screens that are sent by the original application in several SEND commands. | |
| Changed the immediate shutdown option to provide for recovery from internal error conditions | |
| All programs now execute and obtain storage in 31 bit mode. | |
| Ship object code only. | |
| Removed support for BTAM terminals. | |
| Provide notification of the terminal being spied upon when the SPY session ends as well as when a session begins. | |
| Release 1.6 | Added support for CICS Transaction Server 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 for OS/390 |
| Added support for CICS Transaction Server 1.1 for VSE/ESA | |
| Added optional customer callable program SPYPDUA (see Section 5.5) | |
| Release 1.5 | Expanded all date fields to include the century for year 2000 and beyond compatibility |
| Release 1.4 | Added ability to SPY based on transaction id. |
| Added ability to specify transactions and terminals to be automatically SPYed on when CICS/SPY is enabled. | |
| Added ability to SPY on all transactions in the CICS system at the same time by specifying *ALL as a transid. | |
| Release 1.3 | Added support for CICS 4.1. |
| Added option to notify the terminal being spied on that a SPY session has begun on their terminal. | |
| Combined source for all CICS releases on one file. Also combined loadlibs for all CICS releases on one file. | |
| Improved the response time of SPY in an environment with remote terminals. | |
| Release 1.2 | Added the collection and display of input screens (you can see what the spied-on person has input). |
| Added the collection and display of AID byte (PF key, Enter, Clear, etc.). | |
| Included CICS 3.3 loadlib. | |
| Added passwords. | |
| Replaced PCOL transaction with new transaction SPYL. | |
| Added the ability to change transaction ids and program names. | |
| Included maintenance since last release. | |