Whenever a CICS command is used with a NOHANDE or RESP option, the default CICS exception handling is disabled. The
correct approach then is to ensure that every possible exception is handled correctly directly in the code and to do this, you need to examine the
RESP value or the EIBRESP field value.
It is possible to compare the RESP and EIBRESP field values to hard-coded numbers or variables containing numeric values;
however, this makes the code difficult to read and maintain. It is recommended to use instead the DFHRESP built-in translator function,
which enables the use of the equivalent symbolic values.
This rule raises an issue when the EIBRESP field is compared directly to a variable or hard-coded numeric value that is not wrapped in
the DFHRESP function.
This rule does not handle RESP values for now.
Noncompliant code example
if EIBRESP=36 then /* Noncompliant */
end;
if EIBRESP=MAPFAIL then /* Noncompliant */
end;
select (EIBRESP);
when(36) ...; /* Noncompliant */
end;
Compliant solution
if EIBRESP=DFHRESP(36) then
end;
if EIBRESP=DFHRESP(MAPFAIL) then
end;
select (EIBRESP);
when(DFHRESP(MAPFAIL)) ...;
end;
