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CICS Transaction Gateway

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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 Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify trans id - test CPSM workload Routing and Separation (TRANGROUP)

CTG Explorer Preferences - add ability to specify tranid - test CPSM workload TRANGROUP Routing and Distribution. Check path from the CTG connected Target CICS to the target processing AOR (Application Owning Region).
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Planned for future release

CTG EXCI Channel and Container support

CICS V5.4 now enables batch EXCI use of Channel and Containers. This new function greatly expands the value of EXCI access from SYSPLEX workloads. Developers are in need of larger data conversations which are delivered with a familiar interface. T...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improve the standard log for jwt token validation

Some of the error reports in the validation of a JWT, such as iss configured not corresponding to the one present in the jwt or JWT not supplied in input, do not raise an exception as in the case of a badly formed JWT (e.g. expected 3 parts presen...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Errormessage should be written at Joblog when UserID / Password request is used and "FALLBACKBASICAUTH" is set to NO

"FALLBACKBASICAUTH=NO" is set in our CTG-Init member for processing JSON WEB tokens to not allow logins with UserID and Password. If the CTG application try to login with UserID and Password, the CTG request in the application receives an error m...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) - Transaction flow control

Have ability to issue command to turn off flow of work thru the CICS Transaction Gateway, at the Transaction Level. /F T8DTGEZ3,APPL=TRANDIABLE,DRP1/F T8DTGEZ3,APPL=TRANENABLE,DRP1/F T8DTGEZ3,APPL=TRANSHOW This would turn off workflow to the backe...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 5 Not under 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...
almost 9 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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