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The current CICS BAC SYSIN continuation processing using column 72 is sufficient for most sites.
Changing the allowed continuation character offset introduces unnecessary risk to existing CICS BAC jobstreams.
We have done some changes JCLPLUS to accomodate the col-72 hyphen for CBAC but it resulted to some critical issues.
We carry out JCL translation using JCLPLUS in our change package when promoting JCL to production and CBAC's
requirement to fix continuation character at col-72 has caused multiple translation error in the JCL,
and this will cause serious issue in production as there is no mechanism to detect translation issue automatically.
Example of translation issue we encountered is that any characters starting at col-73 are not being moved,
thus generating some space gaps in our PRMs.
Please look into fixing/addressing the continuation character issue in CBAC instead.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Enterprise Tooling
Product - CICS Batch Application Control
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Enterprise Tooling
Product - CICS Batch Application Control