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CICS Transaction Gateway

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Implement console command to allow the setting of CTG agteway health in WLM

We are looking for a method to control new workload connections to not go to certain CTG gateway regions without needing to cycle gateway regions which will cause failing application requests. This request is to extend the already existing command...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

JWT Client Token Coded CTG.INI

JWTclient Token coded into CTG.INI file, It is not a good solution from separation of duty and Security Audit Perspective. JWT Token and the CTG general parameters should coded in different file and controlled by different teams.
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Future consideration

CTG certificate parm

Create a CTG certificate parm to point to a specific digital certificate stored on a RACF keyring
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Planned for future release

show columns dssgroup in zos explorer ctg plugin on cics connection view

possibility to show a columns dssgroup in zos explorer ctg plugin on cics connection view
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 4 Future consideration

CTGSMFRD provided pre-compiled

All z/OS customers have COBOL compiler installed but not all have C compiler. Could a pre-compiled CTGSMFRD (SMF viewer sample CTGSMFRD) provided with the product or with a support-pack?
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Kerberos with CICS Transaction Gateway

We would like to use Kerberos authentication over/with CICS Transaction Gateway.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 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 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Ability to support multiple SSL ports

we'd like in the product is the ability to have multiple SSL ports. This would have allowed an easier transition to CLIENTAUTH and also permitted some internal interfaces to remain as they were with just SSL encryption. Anyone wanting to use CLIEN...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Logging of SSL client authentication failures

The requirement is to provide optional logging of SSL handshake failures in the Gateway daemon.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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

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