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Test connection in CICS TG with only SSL

In CICS TG Explorer plugin, the Test connection currently uses the TCP connection as default. We don't have any option to tick the SSL option.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

CTG Explorer; add box to specify CA1T Policy or CICS Region

Ability to test CA1T HA Routing using CTG Explorer pinger. CTG Explorer (Configurable Parameters for accessing CICS Servers) where specify Program and Commarea Size add new box to specify the CA1T Policy Name. The CAT1 HA Policy name (or CICS Regi...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 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
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CTG Connectionmanager HWM of Connects Waiting before connecttimeout

If there are CM requests waiting, but get served prior to connecttimeout, we may not know that connection requests are delayed. No High Water Nark for Connection Requests Queued. CM_LTIMEOUTS could be zero; requests queued; delayed; serviced in 19...
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CTG Transaction Analysis CTG Explorer View

CICS Transaction Gateway Transaction Analysis; similar to Omegamon CTG Transaction Analysis view. This would show the Program; Tranid; target CICS Server, other; similar to Omegamon. See attached screenshot. Save last N last task flows, in a stora...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Future consideration

Dynamic alter ctg maximum connection managers MAXCONNECT (other)

Ability to alter dynamically the connection manager maximum (MAXCONNECT), dynamically to avoid bounce of CTG to change the .ini file. This would allow for changes to be done on the fly. We do have multiple instances of the gateway, to stager recyc...
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Explorer SSL click box option for CTG Explorer Connection - utilizing AT-TLS into CTG

As CICS Explorer implements, Provide SSL Click box for the Stats API CTG connection, in Explorer. The Company site uses At-TLS on z/OS; the Company is looking at requiring all connections to use SSL. Explorer SSL connection to the CTG would be tra...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Omegamon IMS zIIP exploitation

We use TEPS for detailed monitoring on IMSPlex enviorenment. After a while some of Omegamon adress spaces started to use high CPU. We monitor region occupancy, global lock conflicts, region statistics from TEPS. Since these monitoring functions ca...
almost 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Client 2 Future consideration

CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify Policy to test CTG HA exit Routing or Target CICS Region

CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify CTG Policy used in HA exit or CICS Target. This would allow for a test of a new CTG HA Policy entry or Target CICS region, prior to being activated for Test/Production workload. This would allow fo...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

include the IBM.CTG.Core.dll module solution via NuGet

Devops team need to be able to include the IBM.CTG.Core.dll module in my Visual Studio.NET solution by referencing it via NuGet, like they do with IBM.Data.DB2.Core.”
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release