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    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

    Display of BLF-Data

    Interactive Analysis of a batch dump: Content of BLF data online shown in dump format. Info from compile listing is not used (as in Working-Storage).
    over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 7 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

    FA Eclipse: Divide Storage Areas into Working-Storage and Linkage

    Under Event details --> Event 1/2/3/... there is an item called "Storage Areas" - this should be divided for COBOL into Working-Storage and Linkage. This division should be shown in the outline view as well.
    over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under 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

    ability to throttle connections per client IP

    Ability to throttle CM threads from the same IP address. We have some instances where a client grabs large numbers of connections with long timeout duration, that block other users from entering the gateway. If could throttle the number; analogous...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    CTG EXCI Channel and Container support

    CICS V5.4 now enables batch EXCI use of Channel and Containers. This new function greatly expands the value of EXCI access from SYSPLEX workloads. Developers are in need of larger data conversations which are delivered with a familiar interface. T...
    almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Flexible Alignment Storage Display

    Currently FA aligns its storage display at starting addresses which are multiples of 16. This is often unconvenient: Sometimes application data is not properly aligned: - address pointers not on word boundery are not point-and-shootable - bad alig...
    over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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