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CICS Transaction Gateway

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How many Connection Managers were waiting for a worker in interval.

SMF111 Contains current number of connection managers waiting for a worker thread to become available (CM_CWAITING). But no information on Interval: - Total number of connection managers waiting - Peak number of connection managers waiting.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Future consideration

IBM RFE for CTG To Support Insertion of AppDynamics Unique Transaction ID Into ODR Data Field

Our Mainframe event Acquisition System (MEAS) software product is integrated with AppDynamics Application Performance Monitor (APM). This integration allows APM to monitor transactions that cross platform boundaries, such as from a Windows Applica...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 6 Future consideration

Utilize CICSPlex System Manager WLM for Dynamic Server Selection

Allow CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) to route requests directly to CICS Application Owning Regions (AORs) per advice from CICSPlex SM (CPSM), thus avoiding the need for a (routing) Terminal Owning Region (TOR).
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Transaction detail information to be written to SMF

CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS produces SMF records which include system level statistics that can be imported into tools such as CICS PA for analysis. More detailed analysis of workloads, trends and problems require request or transaction leve...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 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...
6 months 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...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

CH51; monitor specific tranid or list of tranid's - Service Pack,

CH51 Simple Monitor (Service Pack) is a very useful tool. On a busy production system, we can get a ton of lines of output. If investigating a specific transaction(s), it would be nice to have a filter. For example, for Monitor Levels: 1,2,3; have...
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Adding filter to client certificate

In order to be able to accept calls only from authorized clients and not from all those who have a certificate generated by one of the CAs loaded in the ring used by the CTG, it would be useful to be able to configure a list of common name clients...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CHANNEL DFHTRANSACTION from CTG, to have the special CICS transactional properties of DFHTRANSACTION

Reduce storage overhead of having a CHANNEL coming into CICS from CTG and explicitly creating DFHTRANSACTION in CICS with the request payload from CTG Channel. Have CTG and CICS products work together to create the special container. Reduce Coding...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

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...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration