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Visibility into IBM CICS Transaction Gateway running on windows

Yosi_Neuman — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:19:57 GMT

Hi guys,

We are trying to add visibility into IBM CICS Transaction Gateway (java ctgservice.exe in windnows) in order to show requests coming from open systems and send to the z/OS which is not , yet, monitored.

Anyone have list of class and method for custom service and request attribute that can help us ?

Thanks in advance

Yos

Re: Visibility into IBM CICS Transaction Gateway running on windows

arild_palencia3 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:42:02 GMT

Hi.
We are attempting to do the same as we have an interface to z/OS. We would like to trace the transactions from our distributed services to z/OS: Java -> CTG -> z/OS. We have agents placed on all components in the valuechain, however the trace "breaks" at the CTG level. This also means that we have to define Transaction start Filters in the Dynatrace Mainframe configuration. Please, let me know if we have to define custom services to gain more visibility into CTG.

Regards
Arild

Re: Visibility into IBM CICS Transaction Gateway running on windows

Peter_Youssef — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:38:36 GMT

Hello @Yosi_Neuman

You can verify the oneagent related features are enabled or not
If restart is required, proceed with such activity after working hours.
then the request attributes configuration parameters should be able to extract the request attributes information after configuration.

Request attribute sources:

CICS, CICS path name
CICS system id, cics task id,
cics transaction call type,
cics user id,
cics unit of work id

Thanks.