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CICS Transaction Gateway

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Statistics for Client Connection Attributes - Group, include #threads per / IP Source

We had an instance of when a single client Connection Pool took all the Connection threads in CTG; causing performance issues (thread shortage, unable to get connection thread). It would be good to know what IP was taking all the connection thread...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Delivered

Request to Support CTG v9.2 on Windows Server 2016

We are upgrading our server OS from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2016 and just found out that CTG v9.2 is not yet supported on Windows Server 2016.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Delivered

Ctg request during normal shutdown

As stated in the pmr If a new request reaches from client to CICS TG during the time between start and end of CICS TG shutdown then client will get ERROR_WORK_WAS_REFUSED.We suggest that, in a multiple ctgs environmentrunning on different Lpars an...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Channels and containers support for CICS TG inbound resource adapter

CICS program that invokes the JAVA EJB application at WebSphere Liberty side by doing EXEC CICS LINK instead of using a communication area (COMMAREA) is using a channel (and its containers) .
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 0 Delivered

Support for APM tokens in CICS Transaction Gateway

The use of Application Performance Management software continues to grow rapidly in large enterprises. The market has a 25.1% CAGR, and is expected to grow in value to almost $6 billion by 2023 (“MarketsandMarkets Cognitive Operations Market Globa...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Workload Manager failure recovery

CTG workload manager cannot handle CICS message "DFHIE1208 ..CICS is shutting down" in order to exclude this CICS from routing list . CTG waits for ECI_ERR_NO_CICS error message in order to exclude this CICS from routing list and abends transactio...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

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.
almost 4 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...
over 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.
over 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.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Delivered

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