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CICS Transaction Gateway

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

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...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime Future consideration

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

CTG Explorer - Add .ini file column, to view

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

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...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 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 4 years 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

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 ...
over 1 year 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

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...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other Future consideration

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