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CICS Transaction Gateway

CTGDBG to echo .ini in addition to STDENV variables.

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

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 ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other Planned for future release

Implement OTEL Environment Variable: OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=logging

Implement OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=logging so Otel goes to STDOUT, for preliminarey testing. Apr 02, 2026 3:04:30 PM io.opentelemetry.sdk.autoconfigure.AutoConfiguredOpenTeemetrySdkBuilder build INFO: Error encountered during autoconfiguration. Closi...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Future consideration

closetimeout for thread vs entire pooled connection

closetimeout=0 applies only to the entire connection; not at the individual request or session thread level. For Managed Connection with Pool of threads closetimeout=0 does not apply, when client request times out or goes away. I asked for this de...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Under review

OTEL EXPORTERENDPOINT= specify file for basic testing.

OTEL EXPORTERENDPOINT= specify file for basic testing. Would like to route to file, for basic testing of new OTEL feature, since no collectors available. I saw a video where this was done for other product (Not CTG), where for basic initial testin...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Under review

CTG Explorer - Add .ini file column, to view

CTG Explorer - Add .ini file column, to view.
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer Future consideration

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.
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Future consideration

CTG6421W HEALTH VALUE HAS BEEN SET TO 0

When CTG, gets 'CTG6421W ... HEALTH VALUE HAS BEEN SET TO 0", due to backend Target CICS Regions being recycled; CTG to provide a corresponding message that after CICS Target region restarts, a corresponding message indicating the CTG Gateway reco...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Future consideration

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.
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Future consideration

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 ...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Not under consideration