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PINNED Liberty z/OS - identity propagation for ctg - Case sensitivity issue
I would like to request to give Liberty z/OS a new property to upper case user IDs. WebSphere traditional sends the user IDs always in upper letters and while migrating the applications to Liberty z/OS, we are facing problems when the user log in ...
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    Need load balancing algorithms as round Robbin on IPIC connections to multiple CICS regions working with CICS TG for Multiplatforms in local mode on WAS AIX

    We require load balancing using the round-robin algorithm for IPIC connections to multiple backend CICS TXSeries regions from WebSphere AIX application servers, leveraging CTG in local mode. A similar request was submitted under idea CTG-I-112 on ...
    5 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Allow CICS Explorer to test CTG gateway deamon against specific IP address

    Allow CICS Explorer test against the IP address configured in the CTG connection definition to be sure which CTG we connect to.When trying to test the CTG gateway connection or the CICS connection in the CICS Explorer CTG perspective, the IP addre...
    over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

    Test connection in CICS TG with only SSL

    In CICS TG Explorer plugin, the Test connection currently uses the TCP connection as default. We don't have any option to tick the SSL option.
    almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Not under 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
    almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    more configurable BIND module for program level parameters

    * BIND dynamically * *** this module is already developed by CIO *** The actual bind module parameters are staticly defined in the environment file. This doesn't allows set parameters by DBRM files. There should be a bind instruction file w...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 3 Not under consideration

    CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify Policy to test CTG HA exit Routing or Target CICS Region

    CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify CTG Policy used in HA exit or CICS Target. This would allow for a test of a new CTG HA Policy entry or Target CICS region, prior to being activated for Test/Production workload. This would allow fo...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

    WAS z/OS - IPIC local - CICS

    We are using CICS TG in local mode form WAS with IPIC connections to CICS TS, with TCP/IP load balancing using VIPA on the IPIC connection but we are having some problems with it. We have opened this PMR and IBM stated in PMR 86736,211,788 that th...
    about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Improve the loading performance in CICS IA

    When loading a huge data array from VSAM affinity files into DB2 database affinity tables, CIUAFFLD job takes long time to be processed.
    over 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    CPU excessive when collecting data using CICS IA 5.1 and CICS IA 5.2.

    Customer attempts to collect data using CICS Interdependency Analyzer. The CPU increases significantly when when CICS IA is activated. Customer performed tests where CICS CPU performance increased from 27% to 62% under CICS IA 5.1. There is some i...
    over 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

    CICS TG - ECI status request - support for DSS CTG feature

    Hello,as described in the PMR we need support for querying status of a CICS server group defined in CTG. Currently ECI status requests supports only querying of individual CICS server.
    almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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