Pre-reqs

• CICS Transaction Gateway V9.1
• Apache Commons Codec
• json.org Java library

Introduction

This CICS Transaction Gateway Request Monitoring exit is designed to store the request monitoring information in a cloudant database as described in the blog post Analysis of mobile workload using IBM Bluemix.

Usage

1. Add the ctgcloudmonitor.jar to the classpath of your Gateway daemon along with the commons codec and json jar files.
2. Add the following line to the Gateway daemon configuration file requestexits=com.ibm.ctg.samples.CloudMonitor
3. Start the CICS Transaction Gateway with the startup parameter -j-Dcloudmonitor.dburl=<url of cloudant database> and optionally -j-Dcloudmonitor.logfile=<path to log file>