Let me recommend that vendor word approach. We use it and it works well. You
just want to define the structure that the word will point to in such a way
that you do not paint yourself into an upward compatibility corner. The word is
zero if you have not initialized it.
Access could not be easier:
L R1,FLCCVT-PSA(,0) Point to CVT
L R1,CVTECVT-CVT(,R1) Point to ECVT
L R8,ECVTCTBL-ECVT(,R1) Point to Cust Anchor Table
L R7,CZ_from_CTBL(,R8) Load our word
LTR R7,R7 Is it there?
I believe our own @Peter Relson is the custodian of the word assignments.
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Christopher Y. Blaicher
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 10:52 AM
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Subject: Re: External dsect
If you are an ISV, then I would contact IBM and ask to get an ECVTCTBL word
assigned to your company. That word can be used to point to a CSA structure of
your own making. You can have a program that reads a parm file and sets
appropriate values.
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