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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 3, 2022

SSRANGE Functionality Enhancement

Enhance SSRANGE regardless of selected option (MSG/ABD) to stop memory overlays when starting position for reference modification exceeds target data field length.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Mar 1, 2022

    Hi,
    -We have requested a documentation change on your behalf for this RFE related to SSRANGE(MSG).
    -The behavior of SSRANGE(MSG) to skip over the offending statement and not executing a statement leaves the program in an unstable state. As a result, we won't be able to change the current behavior.
    -SSRANGE(ABD) gives you the intended behavior, subject to the limitation of CICS. If you want a single bad transaction to shut down all future transactions, the application would need to be modified to do so. There doesn't seem to be a CICS option to make that happen.