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CICS Transaction Gateway

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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

Service Virtualziation support for CTG .NET client

The .NET CTG client does not have the same support for Rational's Service Virtuazliation product as the Java client. This support is needed for customers using the .NET CTG client in their testing and development environment.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future 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

Monitoring CTG with JMX

In the CTG Gateway, the ways to follow the statistics are : Java API, CTG Plug-in for CICSExplorer ctgadmin command. Currently it is not possible to manage statistics with JMX. In order to manage CTG with JMX, is it possible that CTG statistics wi...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Make key timeout parameter settings visible through log messages and statistics

The Gateway daemon configuration includes several time out values against different components of the product, which significantly affect run time behavior. When running multiple Gateway daemons, it is difficult to determine and/or compare these c...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide statistics related to DSSPOLICY and DSSGROUP definitions

The statistics available in CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS do not represent the complexities which might arise from usage of the new Dynamic Server Selection policy.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhancements to Gateway Daemon health calculations

Gateway daemon health should reflect the availability of its own resources as well as the availability of the connected CICS regions. Today only the following ECI errors cause the current health rating to be reduced:ECI_ERR_NO_CICSECI_ERR_RESOURCE...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Dynamically change maximum worker thread and connection manager thread parameters

The ability to cope with unexpected workloads whilst maintaining availability.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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