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    CH51 HTTP Java Logger. log directly to Splunk via HTTP; Log4j2; No intermediate DASD store.

    CH51 HTTP Java Logger. log directly to Splunk via HTTP; No intermediate DASD store. Splunk provides direct to Splunk via HTTP. This would be good since no intermediate Data Store or Joblog overhead. Also not to worry about file space at the CTG le...
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Symbolic Support for the CTG Environment Member

    Using SYMOBLIC Substitution in the CTG Environment member.
    about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

    When health RESETZERO, stop flow of Transactions into Gateway. TS015557631

    When transaction gateway about to shutdown; let the tasks in the gateway finish; then shutdown the gateway. RESETZERO not to allow just new connections to the gateway, but to allow no more transaction traffic. See Case: TS015557631
    over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    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 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

    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...
    almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Echo ctg.ini to STDOUT as is STDENV and Policy Rule data

    For historical purposes of prior executions of the CTG, Echo ctg.ini to STDOUT as is STDENV and Policy Rule data. If a problem pops up, it would be good to have the ctg.ini file archived to STDOUT, along with all the other gateway configuration pa...
    about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    Configuration file for shared definitions

    We would like to have the capability to specify a configuration file for all shared parameters (timeout, statistics..) between CTGs and another one for specific parameters (applid,port..)
    about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

    Issue WTO message for impending certificate expiration

    Our CTG customer has requested that CTG for z/OS be enhanced to issue a WTO command every x minutes prior to the CTG SSL server certificate expiring. The customer wants to define a JVM property such as com.ibm.ctg.ssl.certificate.expiration.warnin...
    over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    idletimout statistics

    Please provide the ability to display the idletimeout value and the number of idletimeout counter for the display; also in explorer. The ability to view this information not available in the product. The idletimeout value can be viewed in the .ini...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    _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 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

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