The Parameter List Interface allows you to use the information derived by ICETOOL in your program. With this interface, you supply ICETOOL statements in a parameter list. ICETOOL prints messages in the TOOLMSG data set, and puts an operation status indicator and "operation-specific values" in the parameter list for use by your calling program.

Figure 1 shows the format of the parameter list used with the Parameter List Interface. Table 1 shows the operation-specific values returned to the calling program.

Figure 1. Parameter List for Parameter List Interface

The flags field must be specified. A 4-byte field containing X' FFFFFFFF' must be used to indicate the end of the parameter list. It can be coded after any pair of statement/return addresses.

All addresses in the parameter list must be 31-bit addresses or clean 24-bit addresses (the first 8 bits contain zeros).