Peter, Thank you for the explanation. I understand the Customer anchor table you mentioned above.
Scott On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 8:18 AM Peter Relson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- *IDMWORKS * Scott Ford z/OS Dev. “By elevating a friend or Collegue you elevate yourself, by demeaning a friend or collegue you demean yourself” www.idmworks.com [email protected] Blog: www.idmworks.com/blog *The information contained in this email message and any attachment may be privileged, confidential, proprietary or otherwise protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of this message and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and permanently delete it from your computer and destroy any printout thereof.* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
