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CICS Transaction Gateway

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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...
about 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.
about 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...
about 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.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

two-phase commit from .NET clients for CTG

In CTG, the java client (JCA) has implemented two-phase commit. I woul like the same for .net client.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Circular hops between Java and COBOL transactions

we have CICS applications that make circular hops between Cobol program and Java EJB application and they perform update on RDMBS database that are belong on same LUW ,need to work in two-phase commit
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 0 Planned for future release

Boost up the performance of CTG on ctg.ini (AIX)

Hi Lab, this is our ctg.ini configuration(CTG Version 9.2.0.2 : Build Level c920-20180312-1735 / AIX 7200-02-02-1810)----------------------------------SECTION GATEWAY closetimeout=30000 connectionlogging=on cicslogging=off initconnect=1 initworker...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow caller to control the order in which containers are returned from getContainers method

We would like the ability, for the calling application, to control the order in which containers are returned, on all Browse-Container functions (eg, ECIV2's getContainers method).  According the documentation, the order of containers on a channel...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 5 Future consideration

Statistic to show number of ConnectionManagers in limbo state

The CM_CCURR statistic includes those that are in a 'limbo' state - i.e. those ConnectionManagers which are no longer connected to a client, but cannot be returned to the free pool because there is still a worker thread outstanding waiting for wor...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Fields specified in a BMS map with attributes JUSTIFY=RIGHT,ZERO do not appear correctly in EPI applications

Fields in the (COM) EPI application that are to contain embedded nulls also suffer from "early truncation". As the field is processed, the first null is encountered and is deemed to be the terminator of the string, ignoring the remainder of the data.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration