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CICS Transaction Gateway

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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

include the IBM.CTG.Core.dll module solution via NuGet

Devops team need to be able to include the IBM.CTG.Core.dll module in my Visual Studio.NET solution by referencing it via NuGet, like they do with IBM.Data.DB2.Core.”
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

_BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT: Error message if Named TCP/IP not up and available.

When setting up new environment and setting _BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT=xxxxxx, specified; if the named TCP/IP stack is not available; a distinctive message should be produced. Trace just shows: CTG6525E Unable to start handler for the tcp: protocol...
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

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...
almost 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

WAS z/OS - IPIC local - CICS

We are using CICS TG in local mode form WAS with IPIC connections to CICS TS, with TCP/IP load balancing using VIPA on the IPIC connection but we are having some problems with it. We have opened this PMR and IBM stated in PMR 86736,211,788 that th...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Symbolic Support for the CTG Environment Member

Using SYMOBLIC Substitution in the CTG Environment member.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Kerberos support for CICS Transaction Gateway on z/OS

kerberos support for the CTG component to provide SSO capabilities
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Integrate HA DSSPOLICY with Client IP Filtering

In the past we had created a user exit to filter the IP addresses of clients connecting to ctg. In the configuration file this exit was pointed to by the parameter: CICSRequestExit. Now we need to turn on high availability but the DSSPolicy parame...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

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.
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration