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Provide statistics related to DSSPOLICY and DSSGROUP definitions

The statistics available in CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS do not represent the complexities which might arise from usage of the new Dynamic Server Selection policy.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhancements to Gateway Daemon health calculations

Gateway daemon health should reflect the availability of its own resources as well as the availability of the connected CICS regions. Today only the following ECI errors cause the current health rating to be reduced:ECI_ERR_NO_CICSECI_ERR_RESOURCE...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Dynamically change maximum worker thread and connection manager thread parameters

The ability to cope with unexpected workloads whilst maintaining availability.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

two-phase commit from .NET clients for CTG

In CTG, the java client (JCA) has implemented two-phase commit. I woul like the same for .net client.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Boost up the performance of CTG on ctg.ini (AIX)

Hi Lab, this is our ctg.ini configuration(CTG Version 9.2.0.2 : Build Level c920-20180312-1735 / AIX 7200-02-02-1810)----------------------------------SECTION GATEWAY closetimeout=30000 connectionlogging=on cicslogging=off initconnect=1 initworker...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic configuration of the Gateway daemon

It is not possible to make changes to the product configuration without restarting. The requirement is to enable dynamic updates to product configuration.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Fields specified in a BMS map with attributes JUSTIFY=RIGHT,ZERO do not appear correctly in EPI applications

Fields in the (COM) EPI application that are to contain embedded nulls also suffer from "early truncation". As the field is processed, the first null is encountered and is deemed to be the terminator of the string, ignoring the remainder of the data.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Usability of cicsterm cursor on Windows

The default cursor displayed in a cicsterm window is a vertical bar/pipe character. This is frequently difficult to see.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Inconsistent permissions for log and trace files

Client daemon trace files currently use different file permissions when memory mapped tracing is configured, compared to non-memory mapped. Client daemon log files and trace files should use a consistent permissions pattern, allowing the system ad...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Automatically naming of log files per daemon instance

By automatically naming log files on an daemon-instance basis, log files sizes are limited and archiving becomes a simple task.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration