On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:52:22 -0600, W. Kevin Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:29:49 -0600, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >> >>Too bad the support didn't also include defining IEAVXMIT to use the >>Dynamic Exit Facility. That would have made it easy. I wonder if >>there is some technical reason why it can't be. >> >>Mark >> >There is no technical reason, just the issue of cost. Also, most folks >don't write exits anymore, especially if they have to be coded in Assembly >Language. That also could be fixed at a price, but its not clear that its >worth the effort when things like the NetView Message Revision Table can >do the most commonly interesting functions without exits or Assembly >Language coding. FWIW, Message Flood Automation is written entirely in >Assembly Language. > Maybe most shops don't write IEAVXMIT exits anymore, but vendors do. At least one popular scheduling software package that I know of uses their own IEAVXMIT for triggering based on console events. I guess one can call their exit from IBM's exit. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
