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CICS Transaction Gateway - Improve CICS Request Exit capabilities

To provide a routing logic to send ECI requests to specific CICS TS regions we need to develop a custom CTG CICS Request Exit. We implemented a logic based on the Transid name able to route the ECI requets to the right CICS environment, managing b...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CTGSMFRD provided pre-compiled

All z/OS customers have COBOL compiler installed but not all have C compiler. Could a pre-compiled CTGSMFRD (SMF viewer sample CTGSMFRD) provided with the product or with a support-pack?
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Information about CPU consumption in CTG per request inclusion in CH51 trace

We find a lack of information in the CPU consumption per request in CTG. We use CICS PA and there is no way of getting this information in any report. We have shown a similar interest in Req Id 21847.But our requirement is:We would like to know th...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Logging of SSL client authentication failures

The requirement is to provide optional logging of SSL handshake failures in the Gateway daemon.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Managed connections for ECI Version 2 API

ECI Version 2 application programmers have the responsibility of explicit connection management. This means either:1. Creating home-grown connection management logic, allowing connections to be pooled for efficient re-use, avoiding the overhead of...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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

Threadsafe IPICSERVER Connection Configuration Option THREADSAFE=YES

IPICSERVER section THREADSAFE=YES configuration parameter, to DPL as Threadsafe for IPIC Connections into CICS. CICS PPT DFHMIRS is Threadsafe. This would initially start the task on an Open L8 TCB in CICS, rather than starting on QR, further redu...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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
about 2 months 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...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 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...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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