Peter,

On my z/OS 2.3 system I can find the field ECVTCTBL documented on the Data 
Areas manuals in the ECVT and I can find the field in the IHAECVT macro on the 
system.

I can find no reference to the CVTCTBL in the Data Areas or in the CVT macro.

Is this intended to be undocumented?
Is there a published list of the existing assignments of those slots?

Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw | Security Lead | RSM Partners Ltd  
Web:              www.rsmpartners.com
'Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like everyone is.'

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Peter Relson
Sent: 28 November 2019 14:29
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] WTO

<snip>
If you really need speed, check if IBM has any user vector table entries 
specifically assigned for customer use. 4 load instructions instead of 
searching thru a chain. IBM assigns each entry (e.g. product vendor request). I 
vaguely recall it being called CSRCTABL but I could be wrong. 
</snip>

Upon request (to me), IBM assigns to an ISV a slot in the anchor tables pointed 
to by CVTCTBL and, starting in z/OS 2.3, ECVTCTBL. 
Slots 1009 - 1024 are reserved for customer usage (i.e., the owner of the
system) for whatever they see fit. Slots 1009 - 1024 should be used only for 
uses of which the customer approves.

The slots are 1-origin, so slot 1 is at offset 0. Each slot is 4 bytes wide via 
CVTCTBL, 8 bytes wide via ECVTCTBL. The slots are in key 0 page-fixed common 
storage.

Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Design


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