I will third that I appreciate the IBM'ers and all my colleagues, because at my old age of 67 i realize i dont know all the answers. Peter, since you are so kind to explain i will explain what is going on.
We wrote a caching routine ...called by ACF2/Top-Secret and of course RACF exits. Primarily IRREVX01 exit and its equivalent.. The exit in question is Top-Secret ...we have a customer who has our exit source..and modified it ..to say the least it placed me in a awkward position, i was opposed to distributing the source and upper mgmt over-ruled me. This Top-Secret exit has a number of entry points. One is Command which is the command being passed. After the command is passed and executed via Top-Secret our caching routine is called. Part of this caching mechanism is that a storage area is established Subpool 231, with a 16 byte token. When the exit is invoked we capture the command, build a message and cache it in the Subpool we allocate. If the token is not found we issue a warning message. Our customer is a large multiple LPAR shop. Each because of compliance has to run our exit or in this case a customer version of our modified exit. One LPAR will be running the exit but not caching the commands. They made a change to NOP the WTO for the message being issue that I mentioned above. This is working fine. We didn't send them originally the source code for the caching routine, it was OCO. They are asking for a source solution, their suggestion was could we set a system symbolic and check whether it existed or not via the exit, it not there we do normal caching, if we found it do conditional processed based on a SOW we are putting which is my job as well as write code. After discussing internally with colleagues i was give a much better solution of building a bit map for functions in the calling exit program and pass that as options and then check that inside the caching routine. Sorry for the confusion..I was in the "trees" and couldnt see the forest. Regards, Scott On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Amen to that! > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Dave Hrycewicz Sent from XFINITY Connect Mobile App > Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2017 11:07 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z/OS Symbols Question > > Peter - a thank you... > > This is a not-on-topic reply, but one that I think needs to be sent. > > Peter - you sent your reply on a Saturday morning - your time/your weekend. > And this is something that you, and other IBMers (John, and so many others) > and former IBMers (i.e. Walt, Greg, et. Al.) frequently do as well - > effectively monitoring and responding to this and other lists 24/7. > > Thank you for what you do, thank you for your service and dedication to the > z/OS community as a whole. We z/OS (and mainframe) users owe you all a > tremendous debt of gratitude. Thank you all for going above and beyond as > you do. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- *IDMWORKS * Scott Ford z/OS Dev. “By elevating a friend or Collegue you elevate yourself, by demeaning a friend or collegue you demean yourself” www.idmworks.com [email protected] Blog: www.idmworks.com/blog *The information contained in this email message and any attachment may be privileged, confidential, proprietary or otherwise protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of this message and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and permanently delete it from your computer and destroy any printout thereof.* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
