Slots in the customer anchor table are assigned, as Steve Thompson mentioned, by IBM to customers, generally ISV's, as a way to allow ISV's an anchor point for common storage areas without having to incur the overhead of adding a subsystem definition, or of using a system wide name/token pair. See Steve Thompson's post for the details. While the actual owner of each slot is not publicly defined, some have been determined by products such as MXI or ShowzOS. As for reserving a slot, that is managed by either Jim Mulder or Peter Relson.
Wayne Driscoll Product Developer NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust. Okay, we know what it is. Who owns (owned) it. I think that was the intent. ------Original Message------ From: Mark Jacobs Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List ReplyTo: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Sent: Mar 31, 2008 20:02 Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust. It's pointed to by field ECVTCTBL in the ECVT. ECVTCTBL DC V(CSRCTABL) Customer anchor table. * Slots assigned by IBM. * Ownership: Callable Services. * Serialization: None @P8A Mark Jacobs -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 6:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Another one bites the dust. Martin, I'm sorry to hear you shut your MP3000 down for good. We had the same thing at P&H Mining about 2 years ago, also an MP3000. I'm glad that you could keep your job. The MP3000 isn't much use anymore, since it won't run z/OS in 64 bit mode. I at least got to run z/OS in 31 bit mode before ours was shut down. OK, I'll bite! What's a "Customer Anchor Table slot #51 (X'C8'-X'CB')" <SNIP> It is a table that contains an anchor for ISVs. Each ISV is able to register for a slot. A slot is 1 word where the ISV can store an address (probably in some common storage, CSA/SQA). The ISV may use that anchor and scratch pad as they need. Rega - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
