Generic file paths are used to describe the location of files used by CICS® Transaction Gateway.
You can choose the location for the product files during the installation of CICS Transaction Gateway on Windows, by default:
<install_path> is C:/Program Files/IBM/CICS Transaction Gateway
UNIXFor new installations of CICS Transaction Gateway on UNIX:
<install_path> is /opt/IBM/cicstg
LinuxFor new installations of CICS Transaction Gateway on Linux:
<install_path> is /opt/ibm/cicstg
On Windows the term <product_data_path> is the directory used by the CICS Transaction Gateway for common application data.
The <product_data_path> is a fully qualified directory path, the definition of <product_data_path> appends the Windows common application data directory with the subdirectory IBM/CICS Transaction Gateway.
When the Windows common application data directory is:
C:/ProgramData
The <product_data_path> is:
C:/ProgramData/IBM/CICS Transaction Gateway
The installation process creates environment variable CTG_DATA_PATH set with the value of <product_data_path>.
The Windows common application data directory is a hidden folder.