Parameters passed to the exit program
The parameters that are passed to the exit program.
- Base cluster name
- The name of the base cluster in question. The field is left justified and is padded with blanks.
- Log record
- The complete log record, containing the after-image
to be written to the VSAM data set. For CICS® Transaction
Server records, the first four bytes are the length of the log record.
For CICS/ESA V3 and V4R1, the first two bytes are the length of the log record, and the next two bytes are X'00'.
- Length of VSAM record
- A fullword containing the length of the VSAM record. In the case where CICS VR adds a record to the VSAM data set, the length is 0.
- VSAM record
- The VSAM record that is going to be updated or deleted. For forward recovery, this is the before-image. In the case where CICS VR adds a record to the VSAM data set, this parameter contains zeros.
- Work area
- A 128-byte work area that can be used to pass information between exit programs. See the description in Parameters.
- Format
- Indicates the format of the CICS log
record.
- 5.1
- For CICS Transaction Server log records
- ESA
- For CICS/ESA V4R1 log records