@Scott - do they have any automation tools like ca OPS/MVS or IBM Tivioli?
They can suppress messages.

Or MFP List exit might also work.

Not sure what "suppress" requires

Lizette


> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of scott Ford
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:14 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: z/OS Symbols Question
> 
> Peter,
> 
> We have customer that my previous manager provided our exit code to. The exit
> is to a non-IBM security system.
> The customer with the said code wants to modify a routine we wrote. That
> source wasn't provided. The exit can't pass any parameters during activation,
> but the customer wants to disable one of our warning messages.
> They were asking if the could use a set system symbolic and have our exit
> check it for conditional processing, i.e.; turning off warning messages. I
> was asking to see if I had another option..since my first posting we came up
> with an easier method basically a bit map to set options to pass to our
> routine.
> Sorry for being vague but this code is our bread and butter so to speak..
> 
> Regards,
> Scott
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 4:18 PM Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Slightly OT but.....
> >
> > The FM says:
> > A program that calls ASASYMBM can optionally provide user symbols and
> > their associated substitution texts in a symbol table. The
> > SYMBPSYMBOLTABLE@ field, in the user parameter area of the ASASYMBP
> > mapping macro, specifies the address of a symbol table, which is
> > mapped by the SYMBT DSECT.
> >
> > I wonder why would someone pass a symbol table to this service to have
> > it substitute values for you?
> >
> > Dana
> --
> Scott Ford
> IDMWORKS
> z/OS Development

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