Verb Exit Routine

A verb exit routine can generate a unique diagnostic report that is not currently available in IPCS. A verb exit routine can process either:

Installation application storage
IBM® component data areas and storage

Verb exit routines can be defined in BLSCUSER, in the IPCSPARM concatenation data set, or invoked by name. Define the verb exit routine in the BLSCUSER parmlib member with the following statement:

EXIT EP(name) VERB(verb_name) AMASK(X'aaFFFFFF')
ABSTRACT('text') HELP(helppanel)

The variables are the following:

name

The exit routine name.

verb_name

The exit routine verb name.

aa

Can be either:

00: Indicates 24-bit storage accessing.
7F: Indicates 31-bit storage accessing.

text

The abstract shown on the component data analysis panel entry associated with this verb exit.

helppanel

The help panel to accompany this exit routine.

The AMASK, ABSTRACT, and HELP parameters are optional. If the AMASK parameter is not used in the exit entry, the storage accessing mask will default to a 31-bit mask. If the verb_name of the exit routine is not defined, IPCS will use this verb_name as the module name to locate it. If the module name with the matching verb_name is found, but is not a valid verb exit routine, the user should modify the verb exit entry in BLSCUSER by replacing the name with the user-written module name. The VERBEXIT subcommand allows the IPCS user to request one or all verb exit routines to be invoked.

Reference

See z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Reference for information about the EXIT statement in a BLSCUSER parmlib member.