Support CICS expressions in Expand Source Code

[phaumer]

We're very interested in this function as we utilize expanded source code to run different unit tests. We currently have our own custom expander, but would be more than interested in using the one that you guys provide. In our own custom expander we've had to have custom logic on CICS expressions such as DFHVALUE(), DFHRESP() and EIBTRNID.

Can you shed some light on your future plans for this function in the Z open editor if there are any?

Perhaps this question should be in the discussion section?

Thanks in advance

Originally posted by @TommyTechh in #472

[TommyTechh]

We're using gnuCobol as our cobol compiler in our pipeline, which means we need to handle the CICS expressions manually.
We currently have custom logic for DFHRESP and DFHVALUE to replace the statement with the correlating number value.

We have also decided to replace EIBTRNID with a default string value.

It can be argued that it should not be the responsibility for the expander to handle this, but the compiler. But can we expect cobol compilers to handle CICS statements, i'm not sure.