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IBM has evaluated the request and has determined that it cannot be implemented at this time or does not align with our current strategy or roadmap.
PM and Dev have done a thorough investigation on this RFE and determined that it cannot be accomplished in the short or medium-term. To make this change, the programming contract between the C:D protocol engine and B2Bi will require a redesign between these components. A change this large cannot be delivered in an ifix or fixpack and would require a major version change, mod level or higher.
This comes with significant risks to existing C:D customers who rely on the current behaviour of the B2Bi CDSA. An extensive testing cycle with mainframe environments would be required, adding additional time and scope to this request as any changes need to be backwards compatible.
Additionally, this work would come at the expense of other major features currently in-progress that would be of benefit to DTCC and other customers -- TLS 1.3, SHA2 & FIPS 140-3 support.
If you have any additional feedback, thoughts or ideas, or if there is anything else I can do, please do not hesitate to reply to this message to continue the conversation.
After further review, we find that the DCB information that is shown in the CDSA logs is the DCB from the source file. For the application to work properly, we need the DCB for the target file which is described in the COPY step in the Connect Direct process.
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We are currently reviewing this request with our technical team and will update the status once our analysis is complete.