Hi Gregg, We're not using IPCONN for our CTG, we're apparently using ECI. IBM-in-the-sky told us (at 3:00 this morning) that ECI version 1 only supports 8 character passwords. ECI version 2 increased that all the way to 10. They said we need to switch to IPIC. So I guess I got my question answered and more work to do to move to PPs.
Thanks, Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ferris, Gregg Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2025 7:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: CICS and CICS Transaction Gateway question Does this show anything in the cics region? CEMT I IPCONN Gregg -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 8:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: CICS and CICS Transaction Gateway question Cross posting this to both IBM-main and the CICS list. We are running CICS 5.6, and CTG 9.2.0.2 on a Windows platform. This setup is used to transfer requests/replies from/to a Windows based browser application with WebSphere Application Server (also on Windows) sitting in the middle. It is working fine, we're seeing the requests come in and the CICS responses flow back to the browser. However, we're heading down the path of setting up passphrases and this is where we are running into issues. When the end user comes in with a passphrase, the request appears like it doesn't even hit the mainframe. The error we're seeing in WebSphere is this: CTG9631E Error occurred during an interaction with CICS: ECI_ERR_SECURITY_ERROR, error code: -27. We opened a ticket with CTG support and the response we got back was that we're running a back level version of CICS, and their "supporting documentation" said we needed to upgrade to CICS 4.1. Yes we had already told them we're running 5.6. From what I've found, CTG 9202 also supports passphrases. My developer testing this successfully logs directly onto CICS using a phrase on green screen so CICS doesn't look like it's the problem. So my question(s) is/are: Is anybody running a similar setup: CICS5.x, CTG 9.2.x.x on WAS on Windows? If so, are you using passwords or phrases? If you're using phrases, did you have to do anything different in CICS to work with phrases? Any suggestions as to where we could look for clues? TIA, Rex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
