Re: How "Official" are Supplied Sample Exits? (was Assembler Question)

2009-02-20 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
If you look at SAMPLES that IBM provides, it refers to more than exits. It is code that was considered to have worked (although it may have bugs) at the time it was written. It is not 'supported' in that as mentioned below, you can take it and change it to do what you want it to do. While not su

Re: How "Official" are Supplied Sample Exits? (was Assembler Question)

2009-02-18 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:14:07 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >There is also the issue of using a BALR (or BASR) in lieu of >instructions that do not need Base Registers (ie: Not allowing the >macro to be used in a BASELESS program). That's true. But BALR (as opposed to BAL) does not need a ba

Re: How "Official" are Supplied Sample Exits? (was Assembler Question)

2009-02-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 20:58 -0600 on 02/17/2009, Walt Farrell wrote about Re: How "Official" are Supplied Sample Exits? (was Assemble: On the other hand, with your RACROUTE example that one BALR is going to invoke a set of routines that will usually execute at least several thousand other instructions, possibly t

Re: How "Official" are Supplied Sample Exits? (was Assembler Question)

2009-02-17 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:52:49 -0500, Bill Planer wrote: >That is correct, Roy. I was not complaining about a sample exit. The exit >is mine and mine alone. I was complaining about supported macros to call >z/OS system services. You were also, I believe, presuming that you would be able to noti

Re: How "Official" are Supplied Sample Exits? (was Assembler Question)

2009-02-17 Thread Bill Planer
That is correct, Roy. I was not complaining about a sample exit. The exit is mine and mine alone. I was complaining about supported macros to call z/OS system services. Bill "Roy Hewitt" wrote in message news:<499a9905.6000...@frozen.eclipse.co.uk>... > Chris Mason wrote: > > Bill > > > > The

Re: How "Official" are Supplied Sample Exits? (was Assembler Question)

2009-02-17 Thread Roy Hewitt
Chris Mason wrote: Bill The key word here may be "exit". (much snippage..) > > Thus, given the assumptions above, it is no surprise to me that RACF have > not "revisited" the supplied assumed to be *sample* exit in order to ensure it > conforms to the best coding practices probably several ye

Re: How "Official" are Supplied Sample Exits? (was Assembler Question)

2009-02-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Chris Mason wrote: >The key word here may be "exit". I will avoid talking about VTAM exit, because I never have any experience with it... >I have no experience with RACF exits but I do - or used to - with VTAM exits - and those of some related products. My understanding of an "exit" is that

Re: How "Official" are Supplied Sample Exits? (was Assembler Question)

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Mason
Bill The key word here may be "exit". I have no experience with RACF exits but I do - or used to - with VTAM exits - and those of some related products. My understanding of an "exit" is that it is a point in the supplied product code where a customer might want to impose some logic which cann