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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 ...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 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 ...
over 3 years 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 ....
over 7 years 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 ...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Request to Support CTG v9.2 on Windows Server 2016

We are upgrading our server OS from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2016 and just found out that CTG v9.2 is not yet supported on Windows Server 2016.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Delivered

Ctg request during normal shutdown

As stated in the pmr If a new request reaches from client to CICS TG during the time between start and end of CICS TG shutdown then client will get ERROR_WORK_WAS_REFUSED.We suggest that, in a multiple ctgs environmentrunning on different Lpars an...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Support for APM tokens in CICS Transaction Gateway

The use of Application Performance Management software continues to grow rapidly in large enterprises. The market has a 25.1% CAGR, and is expected to grow in value to almost $6 billion by 2023 (“MarketsandMarkets Cognitive Operations Market Globa...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Workload Manager failure recovery

CTG workload manager cannot handle CICS message "DFHIE1208 ..CICS is shutting down" in order to exclude this CICS from routing list . CTG waits for ECI_ERR_NO_CICS error message in order to exclude this CICS from routing list and abends transactio...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

RHEL8 on Z support

Request RHEL8 on IBM Z support for CTG. My client is considering building an application on Linux on Z that connects to CICS on z/OS.Since my client is currently using RHEL8 on IBM Z, they expect CICS Transaction Gateway will be supported on RHEL8/z.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Support of multiple CTG in a single machine or VM

CTG is able to run multiple instances in the same Linux VM. At this time I'm running 3 CTG instances on my VM. Thes instances are connected to 3 different TXSERIES régions.In the same time I use one loop to send requests on the 3 CTG instances.I w...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Delivered

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