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CICS Transaction Gateway

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Managed connections for ECI Version 2 API

ECI Version 2 application programmers have the responsibility of explicit connection management. This means either:1. Creating home-grown connection management logic, allowing connections to be pooled for efficient re-use, avoiding the overhead of...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CTG Explorer plugin - Provide interval statistics

Statistics values returned seemd to be all Lifetime and not Interval. When shooting a problem interval stats are probably the most important
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration

Modify CICS transaction gateway to use more than a 10 character password when using TCP/IP

We have a application that connects to CICS TXSeries through CICS transaction gateway. The CTG does a ECI call when calling TXSeries from CTG. We need to pass password of 16 characters from CTG to TXSeries and teh field ECI-PASSWORD2 is being leve...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration

Information about CPU consumption in CTG per request inclusion in CH51 trace

We find a lack of information in the CPU consumption per request in CTG. We use CICS PA and there is no way of getting this information in any report. We have shown a similar interest in Req Id 21847.But our requirement is:We would like to know th...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Configurable dynamic server selection for Client Application

Configurable dynamic server selection (round robin, fail-over, back-end of scalability) for Client applications using the ECI V1 API, including the ability to dynamically modify the routing policy.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CTG bidirectional support

This requirement is raised on behalf of ICBC. They raised this requirement in 2014 CICS China group meeting. They want to try CTG as gateway. It is not only request from client via CTG into CICS TS, it is also request from CICS TS via CTG to other...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CTG Outbound requests

Product CICS TG z/OSWe use CTG to manage INBOUND ECI Calls coming from program running on OPEN Application Servers (Tomcat) towards CICS TS z/OS.We would like that CTG z/OS could manage also OUTBOUND Calls from CICS TS z/OS towards OPEN Applicatio...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

ECI Information regarding security error

When the client gets return code "-27" from ECI request (security error) there is no specific information explaning the nature of the error. Please add functionality to the API to allow this. Regards, Elad Levkovitz Discount Bank
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS server (instance) statistics improvements

In case you have multiple CICS instances connected to the same gateway daemon you can identify using CSx_IALLREQ and CSx_IAVRESP, in conjunction with GD_IALLREQ and GD_IAVRESP, the sources of a performance problems (i.e. you can see if there is a ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow configurable transaction support for IMS and CICS Resource Adapter

Provide a way for consumers of IMS Connect and CICS resource adapters to specify whether the interaction with IMS or CICS should be included as part of the current transaction scope or not.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 4 Not under consideration