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CICS Transaction Gateway

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RHEL8 on Z support

Request RHEL8 on IBM Z support for CTG. My client is considering building an application on Linux on Z that connects to CICS on z/OS.Since my client is currently using RHEL8 on IBM Z, they expect CICS Transaction Gateway will be supported on RHEL8/z.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Support of multiple CTG in a single machine or VM

CTG is able to run multiple instances in the same Linux VM. At this time I'm running 3 CTG instances on my VM. Thes instances are connected to 3 different TXSERIES régions.In the same time I use one loop to send requests on the 3 CTG instances.I w...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Delivered

CICS Request Exit to provide client IP address

CICS Request Exit getCICSServer() method is provided with a map containing meta-data related to the application request. However, it does not contain IP address of the originating client machine.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Delivered

Make program and transaction available to the CICS Request Exit for XA transactions

For ECI requests within XA transactions, Program name and Tranid are not available to the CICS Request Exit within the supplied request meta data request. They are available under non-XA transactions.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Delivered

CTG 9.1 support Java 8.0

We are actually running CTG 9.1 with Java 7.1 - our Company wants to go forward to Java V8 with all applications / software. For us there is no other need to migrate to CTG 9.2. As the Senior Offering Manager for TXSeries and CICS TG - Mr. Anubhut...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Delivered

Extend SSL Cert "Client to Server" two way authenication Support to CTG .net functions

We have a requirement to establish an SSL connection between .net clients and a z/OS CTG instance. As with Java, the requirement is to allow the swapping, for authenication, of a pair of certificates; Server and Client, in a bi-directional autheni...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 3 Delivered

CTG .NET API support for Visual studio 2017 and .NET Framework 4.7

We're moving to Windows 10, Visual Studio V4.7, and Visual Studio 2017 - and require CTG API support in that environment
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

CICS Explorer support for Windows 10

CICS Explorer support for Windows 10, including plugins: Debug Tool and Fault Analyzer.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Delivered

CTG for z/OS: file mode setting

It appears that all output files which are created by the CTG z/OS V9.0 and put into HFS(zFS) got the permission bits '666' (rw-rw-rw-). This can be checked for the ctg trace file or healthcenter output or logs from support pacs (e.g. CH0A or CH51).
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Delivered

Allow cut / paste functionality in CICS TG Explorer plugin

Currently there is no way to Copy/Paste the screen contents from a CICS Explorer CICS TG Plugin Tabular Result Set Display. Customer would like to have the ability to capture resource details (IE: CTG Connection Status) and preserve it in either a...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 2 Delivered