I think that ECVTCTB2 was mentioned at a technical disclosure meeting in Pok with the ISVs several years ago.
Regardless, this is the wording that I now provide upon "assignment" of a slot (with nnn, xxx, yyy, zzz filled in) describing what that assignment "gets you", and it applies to existing assignments as well: I have assigned slot nnn to yyy. These are the 4 bytes at offset zzz in the area pointed to by ECVTCTBL. You also "automatically" get entry nnn in the CICS Vendor Anchor Table. For that, you use invocations such as DFHKEVAT SETSLOT|GETSLOT,INDEX=nnn If this is of interest to your company, to get the macros, send a note to [email protected] and request to be a participant of the Early Test Program (ETP). If not IBM, As of z/OS 2.3 (not earlier releases) you also get slot nnn (field FXEFRAT_SLOT_nnn) in the z/OS Function Registry mapped by macro FXEFR in the area pointed to by XCVT_FRAT. As of z/OS 2.3 (not earlier releases) you also get 8-byte slot nnn in the area pointed to by ECVTCTB2 (the 8 bytes at offset x'yyy') Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
