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Status Future consideration
Workspace CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 5, 2019

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TCPIP Session identification

Problem: When a TCP/IP session is established with a CICS region there is nothing in any of the CICS logs to indicate that this has happened. There are messages generated when an error occurs during session establishment (such as DFHWB0732) but nothing for when a session is established successfully.

Solution: Create a message that is sent to the CSMT log for establishment of a TCP/IP session and a different message when a session is deleted. Also give the ability to turn these messages on or off via CEMT. This message could be TCP/IP version of the terminal sign on message DFHSN1100 and could contain the following information
1) Date / Time
2) Client IP address
3) Certificate ID (if used)
4) User ID

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 6, 2021

    No response has been received from a request for more information. The RFE will be moved back to the uncommitted candidate backlog and will not be progressed until more information is forthcoming.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 6, 2021

    This RFE is being reassessed, and more information is required.

    The assumption is that this RFE is asking for CICS to log a message when every TCP/IP web session is created and another when it is closed, and for this logging function to be able to be turned on and off. The default being off.

    • What is the use case for these messages, is it for auditing or problem determination? Will they be read by humans or automation ?

    • Does this need to include inbound and outbound web sessions ?

    • What other data is required, such as TCP/IP service (inbound), URIMAP (outbound), listening port, client port, client IP address, IP protocol, TLS security protocol (if enabled), TLS client certificate details, requests processed ?

    • Where does the data need to be written to, options are a dedicated TDQ or zFS ?

    Note that CICS does not have the concept of a user ID per web session, and any authentication of users for web applications can only be implemented within the web application itself.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 5, 2019

    This is a candidate for a future release

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