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Status Not under consideration
Workspace CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 26, 2019

RELATED IDEAS

Asktime should set a properly formatted COMP-3 in EIBTIME

Copied from the following APAR: (sorry for the all caps)
APAR= PN08959 SER= PIN=566540301-817 IN INCORROUT EIBTIME FIELD HAS INCORRECT SIGN AFTER ASKTIME.

STAT= CLOSED DOC FESN6540301- CTID= HU0414 ISEV= 4 SB91/10/23 RC91/10/24 CL91/11/18 PD91/11/24 SEV= 4

FIELD EIBTIME HAS CORRECT POSITIVE SIGN FIELD 'C' FOR A PACKED DECIMAL FIELD UNTIL 'ASKTIME' COMMAND. AFTER TIME IS TRANSFERRED FROM CSATODP TO EIBTIME, THE SIGN FIELD IS 'F'. THIS WILL CAUSE VARIOUS ERRORS IN PROGRAMS THAT DEPEND ON THE CORRECT POSITIVE SIGN IN A PACKED FIELD.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 28, 2019

    This has been a restriction for many years. For example the CICS TS 1.1 Application Programming Guide documented that NUMPROC(PFD) should not be used.

    With the more recent releases and the restructuring of the information in the Knowledge Centers, this appears to have been lost but this has been corrected. So for example in the 5.5 Knowledge Center here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_5.5.0/applications/developing/cobol/dfhp3_cobol_prog.html

    it states:
    Do not use the following compiler options:
    • DYNAM (if program is to be translated)
    • NOLIB (if program is to be translated)
    • NORENT
    • NUMPROC(PFD)

    These is now in all CICS knowledge centers for all supported releases.

    We have no plans to change this. Changing how ASKTIME interacts with EIBTIME risks causing problems for all customer applications regardless of language..

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