On Thu, 8 May 2008 17:01:41 -0500, Tom Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 8 May 2008 16:24:29 -0500, Todd Burch wrote: > >>Im making an assumption that somewhere in a control block somewhere >(maybe >>the CVT, ECVT, or SMF control blocks?), there is a site/company name (like >>ACME Inc.) that is defined at z/OS install time. >> >>If this assumption is correct, where could I pick up that data in an IPCS >>dump? Ive looked in the CVT, ECVT and SMCA but havent found anything >yet. >> >>(Perspective: clients send in dumps, and I would like to output the client >>data with our automated IPCS analysis routines.) > > >There is a 16-byte field in the CVT's prefix area, at -24 decimal from the CVT >base, which was set aside by IBM decades ago for such a purpose. The field's >name is CVTVERID. (FLCCVT-24)->CVTVERID > >Please let us all know if you ever find any non-blank data in that field from any >client site. (I don't expect that you will find that many sites customize that >field. I won't be surprised if many on this list are unaware of it.) > I do know shops that use it. The one that asked me to add the display of it to IPLINFO (which I do if it is non-blank) zapped it as part of their cloning process and used it to help easily identify the maintenance level of a particular system. Roland added the display to SHOWMVS (SHOWZOS) also IIRC. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
