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Using the PL/I Message User Exit

The PL/I message user exit allows an installation to monitor compile-time and run-time issued messages. Every message that is issued by various PL/I components is presented to the user exit. If it is a compiler-issued message, it is then subjected to the -f compile-time option.

The user exit can:

Note: The user exit API is a trusted interface and is running as part of PL/I and therefore could affect the stability of the run-time system and of the compiler and other components involved.

Enterprise Developer provides a skeleton default user exit that you can modify to suit your needs. It can be used to gather compile-time information for later or real-time analysis. Ensure that your modified user exit either takes precedence over or replaces the provided skeleton user exit.

The compile-time user exit should be built as follows:

It must have an executable name of mfplictx (lower case) and be placed in a directory that is on the search path (PATH on Windows).

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