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Workspace CICS Transaction Gateway
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on May 18, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

Ctg request during normal shutdown

As stated in the pmr
If a new request reaches from client to CICS TG during the time between start and end of CICS TG shutdown then client will get ERROR_WORK_WAS_REFUSED.
We suggest that, in a multiple ctgs environment
running on different Lpars and sharing the same port by WLM defintion , the requests won't be routed to the closing instance, as in this instance the working threads have been already closed, and the client is given the error ERROR_WORK_WAS_REFUSED.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 21, 2020

    This RFE is now delivered by additional capability through which you can reset the CICS TG health to 0 before planned shutdown. Please see 9.3 KC for more details.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 6, 2020

    If TCP/IP load balancing is used, connections are shared between several Gateway daemons listening on a single TCP/IP port and creating a highly available Gateway group. This provides a single end point for client requests, regardless of the type of transaction being handled. Health reporting is an additional mechanism that can be used to influence the TCP/IP load balancing algorithm so that unavailable CICS servers are not used.
    As the routing decision is taken by the TCP/IP load balancer, CICS TG has no control on incoming requests during the shutdown phase. However. we can provide an option to set the gateway health to zero. This will ensure no requests will be routed to the gateway. Then you can shutdown a gateway to avoid the requests failing with ERROR_WORK_WAS_REFUSED error.

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