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Ability to support multiple SSL ports

we'd like in the product is the ability to have multiple SSL ports. This would have allowed an easier transition to CLIENTAUTH and also permitted some internal interfaces to remain as they were with just SSL encryption. Anyone wanting to use CLIEN...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve the coverage of handling OOM errors to prevent Gateway daemon to be in an inconsistent state

If a Worker or ConnectionManager thread is active at the time the JVM throws an OutOfMemoryError, the thread terminates but other Gateway daemon threads fails to work and not processing requests. This behavior prevents failover from occurring as t...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

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...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 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..)
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Basic CICS Plugin for Intercept

Currently can only be set Display mode 'ON' or 'OFF' by start CTG from SYSIN file. Forces have to recycle the CTG causing a risk
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

WAS z/OS - IPIC local - CICS

We are using CICS TG in local mode form WAS with IPIC connections to CICS TS, with TCP/IP load balancing using VIPA on the IPIC connection but we are having some problems with it. We have opened this PMR and IBM stated in PMR 86736,211,788 that th...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CTG check validity date of the certificate in the TLS protocol

The CTG server side should check the validity date of the certificate in the TLS protocol and does not only delegate control to the client JVMmight not even check (Oracle JVM). Enabling additional control could be included in a configuration param...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CTG daemon should do self-check and cleanup IPC queue regularly

Customer think the CTG daemon should do self-check and clean up the IPC message queue regularly
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

EXCI Improved Error Messages

For the CTG6876E EXCI errors print out additional information which is related to the error. For example on a 404 error log the User Token, for the 408 error print the UOW ID, for the 418 error print the Password Token. There are other EXCI error ...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Is a defect

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