GIMEXITS control statements

SMP/E provides support for two exit points in SMP/E command processing. You can write exit routine programs that receive control at those exit points to:

process statements from SMPPTFIN during the RECEIVE command, and
control retry processing when data sets run out of space during ACCEPT, APPLY, GZONEMERGE, LINK LMODS, LINK MODULE, RECEIVE, or RESTORE processing.

The GIMEXITS member of the SMPPARM data set contains control statements used to identify the exit routine programs to be given control at those SMP/E exit points. It is the presence of the control statement that indicates to SMP/E that an exit routine program is to be called at the appropriate exit point during SMP/E processing. The statements not only identify the exit routine program, but also allow you to identify the data set that contains the exit routine program. This eliminates the need to copy the exit routines into the new MIGLIB or LINKLIB data sets; the exit routines can reside in almost any authorized data set you desire.