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    Issue WTO message for impending certificate expiration

    Our CTG customer has requested that CTG for z/OS be enhanced to issue a WTO command every x minutes prior to the CTG SSL server certificate expiring. The customer wants to define a JVM property such as com.ibm.ctg.ssl.certificate.expiration.warnin...
    over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    CTG Explorer - add heuristics for performance

    We are using CTG Explorer to monitor the CTG Gateways. It would be nice to have The CTG Perspective include heuristic rules included in links, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-tg-zos/9.2?topic=assessment-investigating-poor-response-times https://w...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future 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...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    _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...
    over 2 years 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...
    over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    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...
    almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

    Add CTG Explorer Column - STATS PORT

    Add Stats Port information Column. Explorer already shows TCP and SSL port. Would be good to see the Stats Port also; then can view in single view all CTG Ports in use.
    almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration

    CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify trans id - test CPSM workload Routing and Separation (TRANGROUP)

    CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify tranid - test CPSM workload TRANGROUP Routing and Distribution. Check path from the CTG connected Target CICS to the target processing AOR (Application Owning Region).
    almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Planned for future release

    How many Connection Managers were waiting for a worker in interval.

    SMF111 Contains current number of connection managers waiting for a worker thread to become available (CM_CWAITING). But no information on Interval: - Total number of connection managers waiting - Peak number of connection managers waiting.
    almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Future consideration

    CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) - Transaction flow control

    Have ability to issue command to turn off flow of work thru the CICS Transaction Gateway, at the Transaction Level. /F T8DTGEZ3,APPL=TRANDIABLE,DRP1/F T8DTGEZ3,APPL=TRANENABLE,DRP1/F T8DTGEZ3,APPL=TRANSHOW This would turn off workflow to the backe...
    over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

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