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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
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration

Basic CICS Plugin for Intercept

Currently can only be set Display mode 'ON' or 'OFF' by start CTG from SYSIN file. Forces have to recycle the CTG causing a risk
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CTG check validity date of the certificate in the TLS protocol

The CTG server side should check the validity date of the certificate in the TLS protocol and does not only delegate control to the client JVMmight not even check (Oracle JVM). Enabling additional control could be included in a configuration param...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future 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...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration

PFI0510-1340 CTG CICS and IMS health status in sysplex distributor

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: scherwajSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI0510-1340 CTG CICS and IMS health status in sysplex distributorHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent St...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Future consideration

refreshing CICS TG web services in a Gateway

We may be using CTG in a high availability application shortly. It appears that, at present, to refresh CICS TG web services, the Gateway daemon needs to be restarted to pick up any changes. A refresh command should be added to remove the need to ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future 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

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