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Search results: CICS Transaction Gateway

We need the ability to get these ready built container images from icr.io similarly to the way we currently pull websphere-liberty container images through our automation processes.

We should be able to use the same gitlab automation processes to pull ready made docker containers for CTG from icr.io same as we currently use for pulling WebSphere Liberty images.
2 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Submitted

Group List Support in DSSGROUP

It would be a good idea if in the SECTION DSSGROUP, in addition to lists with SECTION IPICSERVER server names, you could add lists composed of other SECTION DSSGROUP group names.
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Future consideration

SSL support for the statistics port in Explorer plugin

CICS/TG v10.1 now allows us to use protocol@statssslapi.parameters but the v3.1.0.1 version of the CTG plugin for z/OS Explorer doesn't support this encrypted communication. I think it would be a good idea to release a new version of the plugin th...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer Planned for future release

Add a command to restart STATSAPI port bind

Add a command to restart STATSAPI port bind without recycling CTG instance. Sometimes, port bind fails and statistics are not available from our monitoring product. Currently, to restart STATSAPI port bind, we need to recycle CTG instance. Adding ...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other Planned for future release

CTG for z/OS Resource Adapter for Jakarta EE 9.1 Application Servers

As of now there is no CTG for z/OS Resource Adapter for Jakarta EE 9.1 Application Servers.The documentation for CTG v9.3 does not mention Jakarta EE at all, while the documentation for CTG 10.1.0 only mentions Jakarta EE 10: https://www.ibm.com/d...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other

Renew a certificate in the ring without restart CTG

As indicated in case TS016643542, currently, when we modify a certificate in the RACF ring used by the CTG, it is necessary to restart the STC for detect it, which implies a loss of service. We think it would be interesting to have the possibility...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Future consideration

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 ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway Planned for future release

Reset Health via Explorer

Reset CTG Health to 100 by using Explorer Plugin, rather than MVS Modify Command.
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer Submitted

CTGDBG to echo .ini in addition to STDENV variables.

CTGDBG to echo .ini in addition to STDENV variables.
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Submitted

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

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