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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: ...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future 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
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

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 ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

idletimout statistics

Please provide the ability to display the idletimeout value and the number of idletimeout counter for the display; also in explorer. The ability to view this information not available in the product. The idletimeout value can be viewed in the .ini...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

ability to throttle connections per client IP

Ability to throttle CM threads from the same IP address. We have some instances where a client grabs large numbers of connections with long timeout duration, that block other users from entering the gateway. If could throttle the number; analogous...
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Kerberos support for CICS Transaction Gateway on z/OS

kerberos support for the CTG component to provide SSO capabilities
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Issue WTO message for impending certificate expiration

Our CTG customer has requested that CTG for z/OS be enhanced to issue a WTO command every x minutes prior to the CTG SSL server certificate expiring. The customer wants to define a JVM property such as com.ibm.ctg.ssl.certificate.expiration.warnin...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CTG 9.1 z/OS Put Critical Errors On z/OS SYSLOG

We would like to see critical CICS Transaction Gateway error messages displayed to the z/OS SYSLOG where they can be intercepted and acted upon by AF/Operator. The closed PMR for release 9.0 40504,L6Q,000 referenced in this RFE shows how to put al...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CTG Trace setting should be read from .Net Core Configuration.API

CTG Trace setting should be read from .Net Core Configuration.API, not specific appsettings.json. We are using Custom Configuration Provided to read configurations from DB.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration