@Peter, it is not so documented, but is it safe to assume that one has exclusive use of a given work area for the duration of the exit routine's execution? In other words, that the work area might be reused later, but is not shared among several tasks or processors? The documentation does not say that, but a "global" or "static" work area would be fairly useless, so it seems like a reasonable assumption.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 5:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF exit IEFU086 work area size <snip> When is this area obtained and freed? I.e. is this area unique for each invocation of IEFU86, or unique for each individual record, or "global". I'm wondering if I can put something in it on one invocation of IEFU86 and access it in a different invocation. </snip> Standard response, which applies here too: if it doesn't say that you are allowed to do so then do not assume that you can. The area is not unique to your exit routine. This should not be a surprise given that there can be many exit routines associated with a given exit, and SMF is not in charge of tracking what those exit routines are. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
