IBM Professional Series User Manual

meaning but the data that they point to should not be
destroyed by this user exit routine (for example, register 13
save area).
The
HST ACC routine must not issue commands that will
allow the system to interrupt the
VMPCSERV processing
(such as
"CP SET MSG ON"). The HOST and the VM/PC
Local processors are paced and required to answer each
other in a timely sequence.
If this sequence is interrupted,
the connection will
be broken and VMPCSERV will stop. It
will be necessary to IPL the HOST CMS to recover the
machine.
Remember if you use any spooling type functions in this exit,
the local
VM/PC user may also be using them. This could
be confusing unless you save and restore the current values
that the local processor set, prior to exiting from
HSTACC
each time. Spooling messages are impossible to stop and
may interrupt
VMPCSERV. Unless the screen is reset in the
host machine
on time, VMPCSERV may terminate.
Because
VMPCSERV preserves the users environment and
restores it at the completion
of the service process, there are
no disks accessed other than the system
"s" disk. This is so
that the local
VM/PC can use all 25 mode letters other than
S. It is not recommended that any file I/O be performed in
this EXIT. piagnose
"4C" should be used to create
accounting data, but it
is also possible to accumulate the
transactions in buffers, and then send them to the accounting
or other machine to be processed. See the description of the
second entry point, above, for more information.
HSTACC should only be used to accumulate or interrogate
the names of the files that are being requested by the
LOCAL processor (VM/PC). The exit will be given control
with register one (R1) pointing
to the filename, filetype, and
filemode.
HSTACC could accumulate or filter the names of
the downloaded files and send formatted accounting records
of them to an accounting machine or use the DIAG X'4C'
directly. The Accounting machine could then reduce the
data and create a list
of programs that are being used by the
local
VM/PC.
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IBM Professional Series Specifications

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Brand	IBM
Model	Professional Series
Category	Software
Language	English