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CICS Transaction Gateway

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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 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

Using existing Credentials in CICS Connection Test option of CTG Explorer

It could be a good idea to associate to each CTG Connection a credential as its done in other Connections (CMCI, FTP, z/OSMF...) when you go to a CICS Connection Test instead of having a unique entrance of User & Password to all CTG's defined
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Kerberos support for CICS Transaction Gateway on z/OS

kerberos support for the CTG component to provide SSO capabilities
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS TG Inbound adapter: provide support for WebSphere Network Deployment (WAS ND)

Hello, In the CTG documentation it is cleared stated that: "The CICS TG Inbound adapter does not provide support for WebSphere Network Deployment (WAS ND)" Unfortunately we only install WAS ND (and no WAS base) on our servers and plan to use CICS ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CTG 9.1 z/OS Put Critical Errors On z/OS SYSLOG

We would like to see critical CICS Transaction Gateway error messages displayed to the z/OS SYSLOG where they can be intercepted and acted upon by AF/Operator. The closed PMR for release 9.0 40504,L6Q,000 referenced in this RFE shows how to put al...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

manage/clean ctgjnilog files

The WebSphere application server z/OS generates messages in the ctgjnilog files and we need to manage/clean ctgjnilog files ourself. I would like these files would be managed more efficiently in the future. Could you create new options to be set: ...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CTG6651E Unable to connect to the Gateway trying to connecting to TG via CICS Explorer

After migrated to CTGV9.1 we get an error CTG6651E Unable to connect to the Gateway trying to connecting to TG via CICS Explorer we are working with both TGV8.0 that V9.1 and problem occurs only with last version 9.1 seems that , working with prev...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

How many Connection Managers were waiting for a worker in interval.

SMF111 Contains current number of connection managers waiting for a worker thread to become available (CM_CWAITING). But no information on Interval: - Total number of connection managers waiting - Peak number of connection managers waiting.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Future consideration

IBM RFE for CTG To Support Insertion of AppDynamics Unique Transaction ID Into ODR Data Field

Our Mainframe event Acquisition System (MEAS) software product is integrated with AppDynamics Application Performance Monitor (APM). This integration allows APM to monitor transactions that cross platform boundaries, such as from a Windows Applica...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 6 Future consideration

Explorer SSL click box option for CTG Explorer Connection - utilizing AT-TLS into CTG

As CICS Explorer implements, Provide SSL Click box for the Stats API CTG connection, in Explorer. The Company site uses At-TLS on z/OS; the Company is looking at requiring all connections to use SSL. Explorer SSL connection to the CTG would be tra...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration