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CICS Transaction Gateway

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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 1 year 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 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future 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 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 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...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CTG Trace setting should be read from .Net Core Configuration.API

CTG Trace setting should be read from .Net Core Configuration.API, not specific appsettings.json. We are using Custom Configuration Provided to read configurations from DB.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future 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...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

GatewayConnection Async support

We would like to have async version for gateway.Flow(eciReq) method in order not to block the current thread while waiting response from Mainframe.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Improve the coverage of handling OOM errors to prevent Gateway daemon to be in an inconsistent state

If a Worker or ConnectionManager thread is active at the time the JVM throws an OutOfMemoryError, the thread terminates but other Gateway daemon threads fails to work and not processing requests. This behavior prevents failover from occurring as t...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

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