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CICS Transaction Gateway

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Enhancing CTG Idletimeout paramater definition for Transactions or Group of Transactions

The Idletimeout parameter with dropworking specifies the period of time, in milliseconds, that a connection is allowed to remain idle. When the idle timeout has expired, the Client application is disconnected. Currently Idletimeout parameter can o...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

CICS TG Inbound adapter: provide support for WebSphere Network Deployment (WAS ND)

Hello, In the CTG documentation it is cleared stated that: "The CICS TG Inbound adapter does not provide support for WebSphere Network Deployment (WAS ND)" Unfortunately we only install WAS ND (and no WAS base) on our servers and plan to use CICS ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CTG 9.1 z/OS Put Critical Errors On z/OS SYSLOG

We would like to see critical CICS Transaction Gateway error messages displayed to the z/OS SYSLOG where they can be intercepted and acted upon by AF/Operator. The closed PMR for release 9.0 40504,L6Q,000 referenced in this RFE shows how to put al...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future 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.”
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Configuration file for shared definitions

We would like to have the capability to specify a configuration file for all shared parameters (timeout, statistics..) between CTGs and another one for specific parameters (applid,port..)
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under 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 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

manage/clean ctgjnilog files

The WebSphere application server z/OS generates messages in the ctgjnilog files and we need to manage/clean ctgjnilog files ourself. I would like these files would be managed more efficiently in the future. Could you create new options to be set: ...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Symbolic Support for the CTG Environment Member

Using SYMOBLIC Substitution in the CTG Environment member.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CTG6651E Unable to connect to the Gateway trying to connecting to TG via CICS Explorer

After migrated to CTGV9.1 we get an error CTG6651E Unable to connect to the Gateway trying to connecting to TG via CICS Explorer we are working with both TGV8.0 that V9.1 and problem occurs only with last version 9.1 seems that , working with prev...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration