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PINNED Respect $HOME/.config/go/env
After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...
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Platform independent code page handling for ECI applications

Allow the same ECI application code to interoperate with a Gateway daemon running on z/OS or one of the Multiplatforms operating systems, with consistent code page conversion. This would bring simplify application development and promote easy re-u...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve granularity of diagnostics for ECI security errors

Provide the details required to diagnose the root cause of an ECI_ERR_SECURITY_ERROR. Access to sub-reasons / SAF codes would go a long way to solving this issue.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

SSL server certificate authentication

It should be possible to force the JavaGateway API to validate that the SSL server certificate details match the specified target server name.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

SSL connection authentication via distinguished name filtering

The requirement is for a configurable mechanism enabling client certificates used on SSL connections to be filtered by distinguished name fields cn, c or ou.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

ECI over TCPIP connection restart after ECI time out

Automatic drop and subsequent re-connect of a ECI TCPIP connection from CICS TG to CICS TS, following a network slowdown resulting in multiple ECI timeout.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Delivery of an library CICS Transaction Gateway libcclaix.a 64 bits for AIX

Delivery of an library CICS Transaction Gateway libcclaix.a 64 bits for AIX.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 4 Not under consideration

New statistic to match log message CTG6882E No pipe available

Currently an error resulting in a "CTG6882E No pipe available" message is included in the ICOMMSFAIL and LCOMMSFAIL statistics along with many other types of communication failures. The requirement is for a new statistic specific to the "CTG6882E ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Please add some kind of query to see about outstanding XA work.

I would like to be able to query the transaction gateway to see about outstanding XA units of work. While the current implementation of statistics does tell the number of outstanding XA units of work, there is no means to get information about the...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS TG should set Socket ApplData

CICS Transaction Gateway z/OS should set socket descriptor ApplData as used by CICS and the EZAC sockets interface.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction Gateway Request Monitor Exit Should run on Internal Rollback Requests

When the CICS Transaction Gateway handles the loss of communications with client applications for Extended Units of Work (XLUW or XA), it will internally issue an ECIRollback to the CICS region. When this occurs, the CTG Request Monitoring Exit do...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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