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CICS Transaction Gateway

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Improve ctgping to handle SSL URLs

ctgping currently only works with tcp URLs as there is no way to supply the keyring/certificate. Can it be enhanced to use ssl URLs? This would give us a simple way to test/prove end-to-end connectivity which mimics our production services and is ...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Planned for future release

CICS TG Connection factory override for transaction level

At V8.1 we moved from providing 2 resource adapters, to providing one. In that move the ra.xml was changed to be minimal and the parameters used for the connection factory were implemented using annotations. The ra.xml is populated from the connec...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

Allow CICS Explorer to test CTG gateway deamon against specific IP address

Allow CICS Explorer test against the IP address configured in the CTG connection definition to be sure which CTG we connect to.When trying to test the CTG gateway connection or the CICS connection in the CICS Explorer CTG perspective, the IP addre...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 3 Not under 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 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration

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 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Using existing Credentials in CICS Connection Test option of CTG Explorer

It could be a good idea to associate to each CTG Connection a credential as its done in other Connections (CMCI, FTP, z/OSMF...) when you go to a CICS Connection Test instead of having a unique entrance of User & Password to all CTG's defined
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 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...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Not under 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
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CH51 HTTP Java Logger. log directly to Splunk via HTTP; Log4j2; No intermediate DASD store.

CH51 HTTP Java Logger. log directly to Splunk via HTTP; No intermediate DASD store. Splunk provides direct to Splunk via HTTP. This would be good since no intermediate Data Store or Joblog overhead. Also not to worry about file space at the CTG le...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Maintain standards currency with CICS Tooling Assistants

CICS Tooling Assistants (js2ls, ls2js, specifically) are an invaluable tool for those of us for whom z/OS Connect is too rich. Maintaining schema standards currency avoids manually adjusting vendor and service provider schemas to downlevel schema ...
9 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

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