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Allow APM Tools to Automatically Instrument .NET CTG Client for Trx Tracability

The current release of the CTG Client used for .NET applications requires us to make code changes in our applications to integrate APM tools, specifically Instana. In our environment, numerous .NET applications act as CTG clients, serving a highly...
27 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 0

CPU and zIIP consumption by call passed by CTG

It's exist 2 SMF record to give us information about the consumption : 77 for the adress space level 111 for statistics It would be great to have a record witch will give us the consumption by call. For example if we activate the JWT authenticatio...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

CICS TG Connection factory override for transaction level

At V8.1 we moved from providing 2 resource adapters, to providing one. In that move the ra.xml was changed to be minimal and the parameters used for the connection factory were implemented using annotations. The ra.xml is populated from the connec...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

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 ...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Planned for future release

Maintain standards currency with CICS Tooling Assistants

CICS Tooling Assistants (js2ls, ls2js, specifically) are an invaluable tool for those of us for whom z/OS Connect is too rich. Maintaining schema standards currency avoids manually adjusting vendor and service provider schemas to downlevel schema ...
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

CTG certificate parm

Create a CTG certificate parm to point to a specific digital certificate stored on a RACF keyring
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Planned for future release

CTG Explorer plugin - Provide interval statistics

Statistics values returned seemd to be all Lifetime and not Interval. When shooting a problem interval stats are probably the most important
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration

Modify CICS transaction gateway to use more than a 10 character password when using TCP/IP

We have a application that connects to CICS TXSeries through CICS transaction gateway. The CTG does a ECI call when calling TXSeries from CTG. We need to pass password of 16 characters from CTG to TXSeries and teh field ECI-PASSWORD2 is being leve...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration

CRLF insertions occur at undesirable locations

A "Line Feed" control character insertion at offset 132 is occurring on printed output from TXSeries with CTG print deamon. TXSeries development team has identified the insertion is not a result from TXSeries. The insertion is a result from the CT...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 3 Future consideration

Service Virtualziation support for CTG .NET client

The .NET CTG client does not have the same support for Rational's Service Virtuazliation product as the Java client. This support is needed for customers using the .NET CTG client in their testing and development environment.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration