Global user exit points (in alphabetical order)
For each exit, this table shows the exit name, the module or domain, where or when the exit is invoked, and includes a link to additional information.
| Exit name | Module or domain | Where or when invoked | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| XAKUSER | Activity keypoint program | Immediately before the ‘end of keypoint' record is written. | Activity keypoint program exit (XAKUSER) |
| XALCAID | Terminal allocation program | Whenever an AID with data is canceled. | Terminal allocation program exit XALCAID |
| XALTENF | Terminal allocation program | When an ATI request from transient data or interval control requires a terminal that is unknown in this system. | Exit XALTENF |
| XAPADMGR | Application domain | When a nonsystem task that has no inherited Associated Data Origin Descriptor data is attached. | Application association data exit in the AP domain (XAPADMGR) |
| XBMIN | Basic Mapping Support | When an input mapping operation completes successfully. | Exit XBMIN |
| XBMOUT | Basic Mapping Support | When a page of output has been built successfully. | Exit XBMOUT |
| XDLIPOST | DL/I interface program | On exit from the DL/I interface program. | Exit XDLIPOST |
| XDLIPRE | DL/I interface program | On entry to the DL/I interface program. | Exit XDLIPRE |
| XDSAWT | Dispatcher domain | After an operating system wait. | Exit XDSAWT |
| XDSBWT | Dispatcher domain | Before an operating system wait. | Exit XDSBWT |
| XDTAD | Data tables management | When a write request is issued to a data table. | Exit XDTAD |
| XDTLC | Data tables management | At the completion of loading of a data table. | Exit XDTLC |
| XDTRD | Data tables management | During the loading of a data table, whenever a record is retrieved from the source data set. | Exit XDTRD |
| XDUCLSE | Dump domain | After the domain closes a transaction dump data set. | Exit XDUCLSE |
| XDUOUT | Dump domain | Before the domain writes a record to the transaction dump data set. | Exit XDUOUT |
| XDUREQ | Dump domain | Before the domain takes a system or transaction dump. | Exit XDUREQ |
| XDUREQC | Dump domain | After a system or transaction dump has been taken (or failed or been suppressed). | Exit XDUREQC |
| XEIIN | EXEC interface program | Before any EXEC CICS API or SPI command runs. | Exit XEIIN |
| XEIOUT | EXEC interface program | After any EXEC CICS API or SPI command runs. | Exit XEIOUT |
| XEISPIN | EXEC interface program | Before any EXEC CICS SPI command except EXEC CICS ENABLE, EXEC CICS DISABLE, EXEC CICS EXTRACT EXIT, EXEC CICS PERFORM DUMP, or EXEC CICS RESYNC ENTRYNAM runs. | Exit XEISPIN |
| XEISPOUT | EXEC interface program | After any EXEC CICS SPI command except EXEC CICS ENABLE, EXEC CICS DISABLE, EXEC CICS EXTRACT EXIT, EXEC CICS PERFORM DUMP, or EXEC CICS RESYNC ENTRYNAME runs. | Exit XEISPOUT |
| XEPCAP | Event capture | Before an event is captured by CICS event processing. | Event capture exit XEPCAP |
| XFAINTU | 3270 bridge facility management program | When a bridge facility is created or deleted. | Bridge facility exit XFAINTU |
| XFCAREQ | File control EXEC interface program | Before CICS processes a file control SPI request. | File control EXEC interface SPI exits XFCAREQ and XFCAREQC |
| XFCAREQC | File control EXEC interface program | After a file control SPI request has completed. | File control EXEC interface SPI exits XFCAREQ and XFCAREQC |
| XFCBFAIL | File control recovery control program | When an error occurs during the backout of a UOW. | Exit XFCBFAIL, file control backout failure exit |
| XFCBOUT | File control recovery control program | When CICS is about to back out a file update. | Exit XFCBOUT, file control backout exit |
| XFCBOVER | File control recovery control program | When CICS is about to skip backout of a UOW because a batch program has overridden RLS retained lock protection and opened a data set for batch processing. | Exit XFCBOVER, file control backout override exit |
| XFCFRIN | File control domain | Before a file control request runs. | Exit XFCFRIN |
| XFCFROUT | File control domain | After a file control request runs. | Exit XFCFROUT |
| XFCLDEL | File control recovery control program | When backing out writes to a VSAM ESDS or a BDAM data set. | Exit XFCLDEL, file control logical delete exit |
| XFCNREC | File control open/close program | When a mismatch is detected between the backout recovery setting for a file and its associated data set during file open processing. | File control open/close program exit XFCNREC |
| XFCQUIS | File control quiesce send program | On completion, successful or failed, of a SET DSNAME QUIESCESTATE command. | File control quiesce send exit XFCQUIS |
| XFCREQ | File control EXEC interface program | Before CICS processes a file control API request. | Exit XFCREQ |
| XFCREQC | File control EXEC interface program | After a file control API request has completed. | Exit XFCREQC |
| XFCRLSCO | File control RLS coexistence program | When the opening of a VSAM RLS file or non-RLS read-only file otherwise fails with an RLS coexistence failure. | File control RLS coexistence program exit XFCRLSCO |
| XFCSREQ | File control file state program | Before a file OPEN, CLOSE, ENABLE, or DISABLE command is attempted. | File control file state program exits XFCSREQ and XFCSREQC |
| XFCSREQC | File control file state program | After a file OPEN, CLOSE, CANCEL CLOSE, ENABLE, or DISABLE command has been completed. | File control file state program exits XFCSREQ and XFCSREQC |
| XFCVSDS | File control quiesce receive program | After RLS has informed CICS that processing is required as a result of a data set-related action occurring in the sysplex. | File control quiesce receive exit, XFCVSDS |
| XGMTEXT | “Good morning” message program | Before the good morningmessage is sent. |
Good morning message program exit (XGMTEXT) |
| XICEREQ | Interval control EXEC interface program | Before CICS processes an interval control API request. | Exit XICEREQ |
| XICEREQC | Interval control EXEC interface program | After an interval control API request has completed. | Exit XICEREQC |
| XICERES | Interval control EXEC interface program | Before CICS processes a non-terminal-related EXEC CICS START request that has been dynamically routed to this region, where the routing region supports the “resource unavailable” (RESUNAVAIL) condition. | Exit XICERES |
| XICEXP | Interval control program | After expiry of an interval control time interval. | Exit XICEXP |
| XICREQ | Interval control program | At the start of the interval control program, before request analysis. | Exit XICREQ |
| XICTENF | Interval control program | When an EXEC CICS START command requires a terminal that is unknown in this system. | Exit XICTENF |
| XISCONA | Intersystem communication program | When a function shipping or DPL request is about to be queued because no sessions to the remote region are immediately available. | Intersystem communication program exits, XISCONA, XISLCLQ, and XISQLCL |
| XISLCLQ | Intersystem communication program | After an attempt to allocate a session for a function shipped START NOCHECK request fails because the remote system is not in service, a connection to the remote system cannot be established, or no sessions are immediately available and your XISCONA exit program has specified that the request is not to be queued in the issuing region. | The XISLCLQ exit |
| XISQLCL | Intersystem communication program | After an attempt to allocate a session for a START NOCHECK request, that is scheduled for an IPIC connection, fails because the IPIC connection is out of service, the IPIC connection is not acquired, or a session is not available and CICS does not queue the request for a new session. | The XISQLCL exit |
| XISQUE | To control the number of queued requests for sessions on IPCONNs | When:
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XISQUE exit for managing IPIC intersystem queues |
| XLDELETE | Loader domain | After an instance of a program is released by CICS and just before the program is freed from storage. | Exit XLDELETE |
| XLDLOAD | Loader domain | After an instance of a program is brought into storage, and before the program is made available for use. | Exit XLDLOAD |
| XLGSTRM | Log manager domain | After the CICS log manager detects that a log stream does not exist, and before calling the MVS™ system logger to define the log stream. | Log manager domain exit XLGSTRM |
| XMEOUT | Message domain | Before a message is sent from the message domain to its destination. | Exit XMEOUT |
| XMNOUT | Monitoring domain | Before a record is either written to SMF or buffered before a write to SMF. | Exit XMNOUT |
| XNQEREQ | Enqueue EXEC interface program | Before CICS processes an enqueue API request. | Exit XNQEREQ |
| XNQEREQC | Enqueue EXEC interface program | After an enqueue API request has completed. | Exit XNQEREQC |
| XPCABND | Program control program | After a transaction abend and before a dump call is made. | Exit XPCABND |
| XPCERES | Program control program | Before CICS processes a program link or Link3270 bridge request that has been dynamically routed to this region, where the routing region supports the “resource unavailable” (RESUNAVAIL) condition. | Exit XPCERES |
| XPCFTCH | Program control program | Before an application program is given control. | Exit XPCFTCH |
| XPCHAIR | Program control program | Before a HANDLE ABEND routine is given control. | Exit XPCHAIR |
| XPCREQ | Program control program | Before a LINK request is processed. | Exit XPCREQ |
| XPCREQC | Program control program | After a LINK request has been completed. | Exit XPCREQC |
| XPCTA | Program control program | After an abend occurs and before the environment is modified. | Exit XPCTA |
| XRCINIT | User log record recovery program | During warm and emergency restart, if user recovery log records are detected in the CICS system log. | Exit XRCINIT |
| XRCINPT | User log record recovery program | During warm and emergency restart, for each user recovery log record found in the CICS system log. | Exit XRCINPT |
| XRMIIN | Resource manager interface program | Before an EXEC DLI, EXEC SQL, or RMI command runs. | Exit XRMIIN |
| XRMIOUT | Resource manager interface program | After an EXEC DLI, EXEC SQL, or RMI command runs. | Exit XRMIIN |
| XRSINDI | Resource management modules | Immediately after successfully installing or discarding a resource. | Resource management installation and discard exit XRSINDI |
| XSNEX | Security manager domain | Restore old CICS sign-on and sign-off behavior (pre-CICS TS 2.1) | Exit XSNEX |
| XSNOFF | Security manager domain | After a terminal user signs off. | Exit XSNOFF |
| XSNON | Security manager domain | After a terminal user signs on. | Exit XSNON |
| XSRAB | System recovery program | When the system recovery program finds a match for an MVS abend code in the SRT. | System recovery program exit XSRAB |
| XSTERM | System termination program | During a normal system shutdown, immediately before TD buffers are cleared. | System termination program exit XSTERM |
| XSTOUT | Statistics domain | Before a statistics record is written to SMF. | Exit XSTOUT |
| XSZARQ | Front End Programming Interface | After a FEPI request has completed. | Front End Programming Interface exits XSZARQ and XSZBRQ |
| XSZBRQ | Front End Programming Interface | Before a FEPI request is actioned. | Front End Programming Interface exits XSZARQ and XSZBRQ |
| XTCATT | Terminal control program | Before task attach. | Exit XTCATT |
| XTCIN | Terminal control program | After an input event. | Exit XTCIN |
| XTCOUT | Terminal control program | Before an output event. | Exit XTCOUT |
| XTDEREQ | Transient data EXEC interface program | Before CICS processes a transient data API request. | Exit XTDEREQ |
| XTDEREQC | Transient data EXEC interface program | After a transient data API request has completed. | Exit XTDEREQC |
| XTDIN | Transient data program | After receiving data from QSAM (extrapartition) or VSAM (intrapartition). | Exit XTDIN |
| XTDOUT | Transient data program | Before passing data to a QSAM (extrapartition) or VSAM (intrapartition) user-defined transient data queue. | Exit XTDOUT |
| XTDREQ | Transient data program | Before request analysis. | Exit XTDREQ |
| XTSEREQ | Temporary storage EXEC interface program | Before CICS processes a temporary storage API request. | Exit XTSEREQ |
| XTSEREQC | Temporary storage EXEC interface program | After a temporary storage API request has completed. | Exit XTSEREQC |
| XTSPTIN | Temporary storage domain | Before invocation of a TSPT function. | Exit XTSPTIN |
| XTSPTOUT | Temporary storage domain | After invocation of a TSPT function. | Exit XTSPTOUT |
| XTSQRIN | Temporary storage domain | Before invocation of a TSQR function. | Exit XTSQRIN |
| XTSQROUT | Temporary storage domain | After invocation of a TSQR function. | Exit XTSQROUT |
| XWBAUTH | Web domain | During processing of an EXEC CICS WEB SEND or EXEC CICS WEB CONVERSE command. | HTTP client open and send exits: XWBAUTH, XWBOPEN and XWBSNDO |
| XWBOPEN | Web domain | During processing of an EXEC CICS WEB OPEN or EXEC CICS INVOKE SERVICE command. | HTTP client open and send exits: XWBAUTH, XWBOPEN and XWBSNDO |
| XWBSNDO | Web domain | During processing of an EXEC CICS WEB SEND or EXEC CICS WEB CONVERSE command. | HTTP client open and send exits: XWBAUTH, XWBOPEN and XWBSNDO |
| XWSPRROI | Pipeline domain | After any instance of the XWSPRRWI exit is invoked and before the Web services provider business application. | Exit XWSPRROI |
| XWSPRROO | Pipeline domain | After the Web service provider application returns and before CICS creates the body of the response message. | Exit XWSPRROO |
| XWSPRRWI | Pipeline domain | After CICS has converted the Web services request body into a language structure and before any instance of the XWSPRROI exit is invoked. | Exit XWSPRRWI |
| XWSPRRWO | Pipeline domain | After any instance of the XWSPRROO exit and before CICS creates the body of the response message. | Exit XWSPRRWO |
| XWSRQROI | Pipeline domain | After CICS has processed the outbound Web service response and before any instance of the XWSRQRWI exit. | Exit XWSRQROI |
| XWSRQROO | Pipeline domain | After any instance of the XWSRQRWO exit has been processed and before the data flows outbound on the Web services transport. | Exit XWSRQROO |
| XWSRQRWI | Pipeline domain | After CICS has processed the outbound Web service response and after any instance of the XWSRQROI exit. | Exit XWSRQRWI |
| XWSRQRWO | Pipeline domain | After CICS has converted the application's language structure into a Web services request body and before CICS processes the optional XWSRQROO exit point. | Exit XWSRQRWO |
| XWSSRROI | Pipeline domain | After CICS has processed the outbound Web service response and before any instance of the XWSSRRWI exit. | Exit XWSSRROI |
| XWSSRROO | Pipeline domain | After any instance of the XWSSRRWO exit has been processed and before the encryption of data flowing outbound on the Web services transport. | Exit XWSSRROO |
| XWSSRRWI | Pipeline domain | After CICS has processed the outbound Web service response and after any instance of the XWSSRROI exit. | Exit XWSSRRWI |
| XWSSRRWO | Pipeline domain | After CICS has converted the application's language structure into a Web services request body and before CICS processes the optional XWSSRRWO exit point, and before being encrypted by the pipeline's security handler. | Exit XWSSRRWO |
| XXDFA | DBCTL interface control program | In the active CICS when CICS-DBCTL connection fails. | DBCTL interface control program exit (XXDFA) |
| XXDFB | DBCTL tracking program | In the alternate CICS when DBCTL fails. | Exit XXDFB |
| XXDTO | DBCTL tracking program | In the alternate CICS when active DBCTL fails. | Exit XXDTO |
| XXMATT | Transaction manager domain | When a user transaction is attached. | Transaction manager domain exit XXMATT |
| XXRSTAT | XRF request processing program | After a z/OS® Communications Server failure or a predatory takeover. | Exit XXRSTAT |
| XZCATT | z/OS Communications Server terminal management program | Before task attach. | SNA LU management program exit (XZCATT) |
| XZCIN | z/OS Communications Server working set module | After an input event. | Exit XZCIN |
| XZCOUT | z/OS Communications Server working set module | Before an output event. | Exit XZCOUT |
| XZCOUT1 | z/OS Communications Server working set module | Before a message is broken into RUs. | Exit XZCOUT1 |
| XZIQUE | z/OS Communications Server working set module |
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XZIQUE exit for managing MRO and APPC intersystem queues |