Micro Focus proprietary support for ECI

Hello,

I managed to start communication between client and server using Micro Focus proprietary support for ECI.

The short notes in documentation are not so useful, but testing I found “how to”.

The “standard” ECI interface looks like

      *

      * Issue a CICS_Externalcall for an ECI_SYNC                  

      *

           MOVE LOW-VALUES TO ECI-PARMS

           SET  ECI-SYNC            TO TRUE

           MOVE 'EC01'              TO ECI-PROGRAM-NAME

           MOVE USERID              TO ECI-USERID

           MOVE PASSWD              TO ECI-PASSWORD

           MOVE SERVER              TO ECI-SYSTEM-NAME

           SET  ECI-COMMAREA        TO ADDRESS OF COMMAREA

           MOVE LENGTH OF COMMAREA  TO ECI-COMMAREA-LENGTH

           MOVE 0                   TO ECI-TIMEOUT

           SET  ECI-NO-EXTEND       TO TRUE

           SET  ECI-VERSION-1A      TO TRUE

I am using external

set ES_ECI_SOCKET=localhost:5550 addressing system to reach the region, therefore the ECI-SYSTEM-NAME is not used.

Other solution with

Set ES_ECI_CCITCP2=localhost:86

usesECI-SYSTEM-NAMEto address the region from MFDS repository

Proposal to development:

To be consistent with IBM TG style and make easier the migration, instead of using mf-client.dat pointing to one MFDS, try to implement let call it

mf-host.dat having entries

------------------------------------------------------------------------

;

; The [directories] section lists directories for service resolution

;

[directories]

; Point MFCC to local MFDS

mrpi://127.0.0.1:86

[Regions]

REGIONP=//123.45.678.90;1234

REGIONT=//123.45.678.91:4321

;

; The [tracing] section enables MFCC tracing; higher numbers log more

; information.

;

[tracing]

level=0

-----------------------------------------------------

and than use

MOVE ‘REGIONP’              TO ECI-SYSTEM-NAME

Regards

Vladimir