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CICS Transaction Gateway

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Improve ctgping to handle SSL URLs

ctgping currently only works with tcp URLs as there is no way to supply the keyring/certificate. Can it be enhanced to use ssl URLs? This would give us a simple way to test/prove end-to-end connectivity which mimics our production services and is ...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Planned for future release

Enhancing CTG Idletimeout paramater definition for Transactions or Group of Transactions

The Idletimeout parameter with dropworking specifies the period of time, in milliseconds, that a connection is allowed to remain idle. When the idle timeout has expired, the Client application is disconnected. Currently Idletimeout parameter can o...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

include the IBM.CTG.Core.dll module solution via NuGet

Devops team need to be able to include the IBM.CTG.Core.dll module in my Visual Studio.NET solution by referencing it via NuGet, like they do with IBM.Data.DB2.Core.”
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

CHANNEL DFHTRANSACTION from CTG, to have the special CICS transactional properties of DFHTRANSACTION

Reduce storage overhead of having a CHANNEL coming into CICS from CTG and explicitly creating DFHTRANSACTION in CICS with the request payload from CTG Channel. Have CTG and CICS products work together to create the special container. Reduce Coding...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Symbolic Support for the CTG Environment Member

Using SYMOBLIC Substitution in the CTG Environment member.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

_BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT: Error message if Named TCP/IP not up and available.

When setting up new environment and setting _BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT=xxxxxx, specified; if the named TCP/IP stack is not available; a distinctive message should be produced. Trace just shows: CTG6525E Unable to start handler for the tcp: protocol...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify trans id - test CPSM workload Routing and Separation (TRANGROUP)

CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify tranid - test CPSM workload TRANGROUP Routing and Distribution. Check path from the CTG connected Target CICS to the target processing AOR (Application Owning Region).
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Planned for future release

Improve the standard log for jwt token validation

Some of the error reports in the validation of a JWT, such as iss configured not corresponding to the one present in the jwt or JWT not supplied in input, do not raise an exception as in the case of a badly formed JWT (e.g. expected 3 parts presen...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Errormessage should be written at Joblog when UserID / Password request is used and "FALLBACKBASICAUTH" is set to NO

"FALLBACKBASICAUTH=NO" is set in our CTG-Init member for processing JSON WEB tokens to not allow logins with UserID and Password. If the CTG application try to login with UserID and Password, the CTG request in the application receives an error m...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

CTG must provide support for Muli-Factor Authentication (MFA)

In order to achieve wide-spread adoption of MFA in our mainframe environment, CTG must support MFA. The vast majority of our end-user community uses CTG to perform their day-to-day work. Without CTG support for MFA, MFA adoption will only be avail...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release