More precisely, its that there is no practical way to get the other users to adopt a common protocol for using it.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Charles Mills <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2019 2:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WTO I think the problem with CVTUSER is that there is only one field but lots of "users" (customer, vendor, other customer department, other vendor, ...). Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rupert Reynolds Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2019 8:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WTO 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 >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
