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CICS Transaction Gateway

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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...
30 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Submitted

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.
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 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 ...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 0

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...
5 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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Allow CTG to connect to JWK endpoint URL

Currently CTG is able to validate a JWT with a public key inside a RACF keyring. Unfortunetly this certificate can change often and can cause some issue. Instead of RACF, it would be great that CTG be able to call an JWK endpoint URL to catch the ...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

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...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Planned for future release

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