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    SSL support for the statistics port in Explorer plugin

    CICS/TG v10.1 now allows us to use protocol@statssslapi.parameters but the v3.1.0.1 version of the CTG plugin for z/OS Explorer doesn't support this encrypted communication. I think it would be a good idea to release a new version of the plugin th...
    11 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Planned for future release

    IMS Online Reorg to disregard error: Number of online IMS subsystems has changed

    We are looking for an option to tell IMS ORF to disregard if the number of online subsystems has changed during job execution time. We are running a 4 way data sharing environment and planning to introduce rolling IPLs in the near future. We also ...
    over 1 year ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / Database Reorg 3 Planned for future release

    Allow CTG to connect to JWK endpoint URL

    Currently CTG is able to validate a JWT with a public key inside a RACF keyring. Unfortunetly this certificate can change often and can cause some issue. Instead of RACF, it would be great that CTG be able to call an JWK endpoint URL to catch the ...
    10 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

    Enhancing CTG Idletimeout paramater definition for Transactions or Group of Transactions

    The Idletimeout parameter with dropworking specifies the period of time, in milliseconds, that a connection is allowed to remain idle. When the idle timeout has expired, the Client application is disconnected. Currently Idletimeout parameter can o...
    almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

    include the IBM.CTG.Core.dll module solution via NuGet

    Devops team need to be able to include the IBM.CTG.Core.dll module in my Visual Studio.NET solution by referencing it via NuGet, like they do with IBM.Data.DB2.Core.”
    about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

    Improve ctgping to handle SSL URLs

    ctgping currently only works with tcp URLs as there is no way to supply the keyring/certificate. Can it be enhanced to use ssl URLs? This would give us a simple way to test/prove end-to-end connectivity which mimics our production services and is ...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Planned for future release

    Symbolic Support for the CTG Environment Member

    Using SYMOBLIC Substitution in the CTG Environment member.
    about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

    CHANNEL DFHTRANSACTION from CTG, to have the special CICS transactional properties of DFHTRANSACTION

    Reduce storage overhead of having a CHANNEL coming into CICS from CTG and explicitly creating DFHTRANSACTION in CICS with the request payload from CTG Channel. Have CTG and CICS products work together to create the special container. Reduce Coding...
    over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

    _BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT: Error message if Named TCP/IP not up and available.

    When setting up new environment and setting _BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT=xxxxxx, specified; if the named TCP/IP stack is not available; a distinctive message should be produced. Trace just shows: CTG6525E Unable to start handler for the tcp: protocol...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

    CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify trans id - test CPSM workload Routing and Separation (TRANGROUP)

    CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify tranid - test CPSM workload TRANGROUP Routing and Distribution. Check path from the CTG connected Target CICS to the target processing AOR (Application Owning Region).
    almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Planned for future release

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