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Renew a certificate in the ring without restart CTG

As indicated in case TS016643542, currently, when we modify a certificate in the RACF ring used by the CTG, it is necessary to restart the STC for detect it, which implies a loss of service. We think it would be interesting to have the possibility...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

manage/clean ctgjnilog files

The WebSphere application server z/OS generates messages in the ctgjnilog files and we need to manage/clean ctgjnilog files ourself. I would like these files would be managed more efficiently in the future. Could you create new options to be set: ...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

CICS TG Inbound adapter: provide support for WebSphere Network Deployment (WAS ND)

Hello, In the CTG documentation it is cleared stated that: "The CICS TG Inbound adapter does not provide support for WebSphere Network Deployment (WAS ND)" Unfortunately we only install WAS ND (and no WAS base) on our servers and plan to use CICS ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CH51 HTTP Java Logger. log directly to Splunk via HTTP; Log4j2; No intermediate DASD store.

CH51 HTTP Java Logger. log directly to Splunk via HTTP; No intermediate DASD store. Splunk provides direct to Splunk via HTTP. This would be good since no intermediate Data Store or Joblog overhead. Also not to worry about file space at the CTG le...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CTG daemon should do self-check and cleanup IPC queue regularly

Customer think the CTG daemon should do self-check and clean up the IPC message queue regularly
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Threadsafe IPICSERVER Connection Configuration Option THREADSAFE=YES

IPICSERVER section THREADSAFE=YES configuration parameter, to DPL as Threadsafe for IPIC Connections into CICS. CICS PPT DFHMIRS is Threadsafe. This would initially start the task on an Open L8 TCB in CICS, rather than starting on QR, further redu...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

When health RESETZERO, stop flow of Transactions into Gateway. TS015557631

When transaction gateway about to shutdown; let the tasks in the gateway finish; then shutdown the gateway. RESETZERO not to allow just new connections to the gateway, but to allow no more transaction traffic. See Case: TS015557631
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Echo ctg.ini to STDOUT as is STDENV and Policy Rule data

For historical purposes of prior executions of the CTG, Echo ctg.ini to STDOUT as is STDENV and Policy Rule data. If a problem pops up, it would be good to have the ctg.ini file archived to STDOUT, along with all the other gateway configuration pa...
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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.”
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

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