Tom A very common usage of that field is store some info about the level of the z/OS system packs (eg "put level"). A site can add a simple jobstep to their sysres cloning/propagation JCL to update the field using a simple zap.
Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: 08 May 2008 23:02 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IPCS - where to get shop specific data On Thu, 8 May 2008 16:24:29 -0500, Todd Burch wrote: >I'm making an assumption that somewhere in a control block somewhere (maybe >the CVT, ECVT, or SMF control blocks?), there is a site/company name >(like "ACME Inc.") that is defined at z/OS install time. > >If this assumption is correct, where could I pick up that data in an >IPCS dump? I've looked in the CVT, ECVT and SMCA but haven't found >anything yet. > >(Perspective: clients send in dumps, and I would like to output the >client data with our automated IPCS analysis routines.) There is a 16-byte field in the CVT's prefix area, at -24 decimal from the CVT base, which was set aside by IBM decades ago for such a purpose. The field's name is CVTVERID. (FLCCVT-24)->CVTVERID Please let us all know if you ever find any non-blank data in that field from any client site. (I don't expect that you will find that many sites customize that field. I won't be surprised if many on this list are unaware of it.) -- Tom Schmidt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
