ahem! I meant to say CVTUSER, a very different field from CVTUSR :-)

On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, 15:17 Rupert Reynolds, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Whatever happened to CVTUSR? Back in the 1990s we used to have (from
> memory) a started task that came up briefly during IPL and it allocated
> storage (I forget what key, but read only in the general case) for a vector
> table, pointed CVTUSR at that, and then it stopped itself.
>
> So if I was (say) at Nasty Wet Monster Bank, it would point CVTUSR at the
> NMVT, which we could use for anything within reason.
>
> Ruz
>
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, 13:56 Peter Relson, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Lennie wrote:
>> <snip>
>> Is this intended to be undocumented?
>> Is there a published list of the existing assignments of those slots?
>> </snip>
>>
>> To the first: it is documented. To the extent appropriate, that being
>> commentary in the data area book and showing the fields as "PI".
>> To the second: no.
>>
>> It is up to each ISV whether they want to make known what slot they are
>> using (and up to them to document whatever they feel appropriate about
>> such use).
>>
>> Peter Relson
>> z/OS Core Technology Design
>>
>>
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