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    closetimeout statistics in CTG runtime and explorer

    provide statistics on count of tasks rolled back by closetimeout=0 or other N value. Interval and Life of Gateway and recorded in SMF.
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Dynamic connection logging ON / OFF

    Ability to dynamcally turn on/off connection logging, with Modify Command or Explorer. May want to turn on to monitor; then turn off, without modifying .ini file and bouncing the CTG. connectionlogging=on|off An .ini parm change requires a recycle...
    7 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    CTG Explorer CICS IPCONN Port # for Connection - Add Column to 'CICS Connections'

    Having IPCONN Port # for the CTG to CICS IPCONN, would be good thing for diagnosis and Port Layout, of the IPCONN Protocol. Be good into for adding new backend CICS regions and IPConn Listening Port #. See attached Screen Shot, of CTG Explorer CIC...
    9 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Future consideration

    CTG Explorer; add box to specify CA1T Policy or CICS Region

    Ability to test CA1T HA Routing using CTG Explorer pinger. CTG Explorer (Configurable Parameters for accessing CICS Servers) where specify Program and Commarea Size add new box to specify the CA1T Policy Name. The CAT1 HA Policy name (or CICS Regi...
    9 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration

    CTG Connectionmanager HWM of Connects Waiting before connecttimeout

    If there are CM requests waiting, but get served prior to connecttimeout, we may not know that connection requests are delayed. No High Water Nark for Connection Requests Queued. CM_LTIMEOUTS could be zero; requests queued; delayed; serviced in 19...
    10 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    CTG COBOL Batch interface like BAQCSTUB - CTGCSTUB.

    Rather than using Batch COBOL EXCI to single CICS region, have a COBOL Call interface like zCEE BAQCSTUB. This would allow for CPSM Workload distribution, across target Batch Processing regions. Topology of (Batch Owning Region),.. BOR --> AOR ...
    11 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Allow for JSON based Identity Propagation

    Update CICS TG RAR to support container-based authentication from OpenLiberty that utilized JWT/Bearer token support. If a client presents JWT and this JWT is validated by the OpenLiberty runtime via feature OIDC with JWT: OpenID Connect Client 1....
    11 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Future consideration

    CTG Transaction Analysis CTG Explorer View

    CICS Transaction Gateway Transaction Analysis; similar to Omegamon CTG Transaction Analysis view. This would show the Program; Tranid; target CICS Server, other; similar to Omegamon. See attached screenshot. Save last N last task flows, in a stora...
    12 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Future consideration

    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...
    12 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

    Dynamic alter ctg maximum connection managers MAXCONNECT (other)

    Ability to alter dynamically the connection manager maximum (MAXCONNECT), dynamically to avoid bounce of CTG to change the .ini file. This would allow for changes to be done on the fly. We do have multiple instances of the gateway, to stager recyc...
    12 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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