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CICS Transaction Gateway

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CTG must provide support for Muli-Factor Authentication (MFA)

In order to achieve wide-spread adoption of MFA in our mainframe environment, CTG must support MFA. The vast majority of our end-user community uses CTG to perform their day-to-day work. Without CTG support for MFA, MFA adoption will only be avail...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

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.
almost 11 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...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 6 Future consideration

Method to get the STATSAPI (RestrictedTCPHandler) port from CICS TG using an external process

We would like to programatically discover the STATSAPI port numbers assigned to CICS Transaction Gateway regions.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CTG Registered Stakeholder Identifier

We would like to register ASG Technologies for a CTG Stakeholder Identifier for the letter "T". We plan to take advantage of the new CTG 9.3 Selective Tracking Token Data.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 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).
over 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...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

EXCI Improved Error Messages

For the CTG6876E EXCI errors print out additional information which is related to the error. For example on a 404 error log the User Token, for the 408 error print the UOW ID, for the 418 error print the Password Token. There are other EXCI error ...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Is a defect

CICS Transaction Server Gateway

CICS TS Gateway provides Average Response time in its returned Gateway statistics for the interval or the day. We need total response time, so that we can elicit the statistics on whatever interval we choose and be able to derive the average respo...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Future consideration

CICS Transaction Gateway - Improve CICS Request Exit capabilities

To provide a routing logic to send ECI requests to specific CICS TS regions we need to develop a custom CTG CICS Request Exit. We implemented a logic based on the Transid name able to route the ECI requets to the right CICS environment, managing b...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration