This is the client side of an API which is going to do a PC to a started task. It can be called from "plain" code, or on occasion from a DB2 user exit. I want to know if it's a user exit, hence I'm testing the key. If "non-system key" is the real answer, then yeah, the IPK approach looks a bit better.
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Binyamin Dissen < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 18:31:17 -0500 zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > > :>Is there a simpler way to see whether we were called in key 8 (not that > :>this is that complicated): > > :> EPSW R14,R0 Extract PSW > :> SLL R14,8 Get key bits in left-most nibble > :> SRL R14,28 Now isolate in bottom nibble > :> CFI R14,8 Are we in key 8?? > > What is being called? PC? SVC? Simple subroutine? > > -- > Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> > http://www.dissensoftware.com > > Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel > > > Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, > you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. > > I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, > especially those from irresponsible companies. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
