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CICS Transaction Gateway

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Delivery of an library CICS Transaction Gateway libcclaix.a 64 bits for AIX

Delivery of an library CICS Transaction Gateway libcclaix.a 64 bits for AIX.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 4 Not under consideration

New statistic to match log message CTG6882E No pipe available

Currently an error resulting in a "CTG6882E No pipe available" message is included in the ICOMMSFAIL and LCOMMSFAIL statistics along with many other types of communication failures. The requirement is for a new statistic specific to the "CTG6882E ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Please add some kind of query to see about outstanding XA work.

I would like to be able to query the transaction gateway to see about outstanding XA units of work. While the current implementation of statistics does tell the number of outstanding XA units of work, there is no means to get information about the...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS TG should set Socket ApplData

CICS Transaction Gateway z/OS should set socket descriptor ApplData as used by CICS and the EZAC sockets interface.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction Gateway Request Monitor Exit Should run on Internal Rollback Requests

When the CICS Transaction Gateway handles the loss of communications with client applications for Extended Units of Work (XLUW or XA), it will internally issue an ECIRollback to the CICS region. When this occurs, the CTG Request Monitoring Exit do...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Security violation for unknown userid during initialization

As soon as the CICS Transaction Gateway v8.for z/OS is starting, there is a security violation for userid 0@ %*?&#. Although this is working as designed, it is something which must always be explained for audit purposes.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide startup statistics for TCP and SSL protocols

Please provide the startup values for the TCP and SSL protocol settings. Your currently provide the Bind addresses and ports, but do not provide the connecttimeout, idletimeout, ping frequency, dropworking or solinger values.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration

64-bit compile and run time support for ECI Version 2

With CICS TG V8, the ECI Version 2 API and run time only support 32-bit applications. Newer C-language applications utilize 64-bit run time libraries and middleware services and as such require 64-bit compilation. In order for CICS TG to be utiliz...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration