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Allow lists of programs or versions by parameter

Currently, using the cicsrequestexit provided with the CTG (BasicCICSRequestExit) it is possible to reject requests that come from a client with a lower software version than we indicate. Similarly we could do so for those requests that try to inv...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Provide Round Robbin fashion of IPIC connections to multiple backend CICS regions for WAS z/OS servers running CTG local

We need high availability for round robin IPIC connections to multiple backend CICS regions from WebSphere z/OS application servers running CTG in local mode.Similar feature is offered by DFHCXURM exit where EXCI connetions can be routed to multip...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Delivered

CTG 9.3 : Direct extraction of the RACF ID from a JWT instead of going through a distributed ID mapping

he support for JWT authentication in CTG V9.3 assumes that the JWT contains a distributed ID that then needs to be mapped by CICS to a RACF ID using a RACMAP definition. We would like to send a RACF ID in a JWT claim so that the CTG then extracts ...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Delivered

CH51; monitor specific tranid or list of tranid's - Service Pack,

CH51 Simple Monitor (Service Pack) is a very useful tool. On a busy production system, we can get a ton of lines of output. If investigating a specific transaction(s), it would be nice to have a filter. For example, for Monitor Levels: 1,2,3; have...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Delivered

CICS TRANSACTION GATEWAY for z/OS support of Microsoft Net.Core

We would like to ask in which version of CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS is IBM planning to support a stable DLL for Microsoft NET.Core ?Is it available in versions 9.1 or 9.1 ?If it is not available yet but IBM is in the progress of migrating ....
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Adding filter to client certificate

In order to be able to accept calls only from authorized clients and not from all those who have a certificate generated by one of the CAs loaded in the ring used by the CTG, it would be useful to be able to configure a list of common name clients...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Delivered

Support for Jakarta package and JCA 2.x

Microprofile is aligned with JakartaEE (ex J2EE) standard, javax package has been removed in favour of jakarta ones. Cics Transaction Gateway (and also IMS Connect) still continue to use the old JCA 1.7 and javax.* packages, forcing projects that ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS TG SSL cannot scale

SSL Protocol Handler is single thread for all the handshake time. Just after the Accept() the handler should pass the process to the Connection Manager thread and then accept the next incoming request. If this is not possible SslHandler should be ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Integrate HA DSSPOLICY with Client IP Filtering

In the past we had created a user exit to filter the IP addresses of clients connecting to ctg. In the configuration file this exit was pointed to by the parameter: CICSRequestExit. Now we need to turn on high availability but the DSSPolicy parame...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Delivered

Statistics for Client Connection Attributes - Group, include #threads per / IP Source

We had an instance of when a single client Connection Pool took all the Connection threads in CTG; causing performance issues (thread shortage, unable to get connection thread). It would be good to know what IP was taking all the connection thread...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Delivered