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_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...
12 months 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...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Integrate HA DSSPOLICY with Client IP Filtering

In the past we had created a user exit to filter the IP addresses of clients connecting to ctg. In the configuration file this exit was pointed to by the parameter: CICSRequestExit. Now we need to turn on high availability but the DSSPolicy parame...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Statistics for Client Connection Attributes - Group, include #threads per / IP Source

We had an instance of when a single client Connection Pool took all the Connection threads in CTG; causing performance issues (thread shortage, unable to get connection thread). It would be good to know what IP was taking all the connection thread...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 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...
over 1 year 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...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Method to get the STATSAPI (RestrictedTCPHandler) port from CICS TG using an external process

We would like to programatically discover the STATSAPI port numbers assigned to CICS Transaction Gateway regions.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CTG Registered Stakeholder Identifier

We would like to register ASG Technologies for a CTG Stakeholder Identifier for the letter "T". We plan to take advantage of the new CTG 9.3 Selective Tracking Token Data.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Implement console command to allow the setting of CTG agteway health in WLM

We are looking for a method to control new workload connections to not go to certain CTG gateway regions without needing to cycle gateway regions which will cause failing application requests. This request is to extend the already existing command...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

JWT Client Token Coded CTG.INI

JWTclient Token coded into CTG.INI file, It is not a good solution from separation of duty and Security Audit Perspective. JWT Token and the CTG general parameters should coded in different file and controlled by different teams.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Future consideration