EXEC

This command, which is only available from within the interactive report, can be used to invoke a Formatting user exit.

1  EXEC?  exit_name? parameters

where:

exec_name

The name of the Formatting user exit to be executed.

If no exit name is specified, then a display is presented from which an exit can be selected.

parameters

Are optional parameters to be passed to the Formatting user exit.

If multiple blank-delimited parameters are specified, then these are passed to the user exit separately.

For example, if a user exit MYEXEC accepts two parameters, "A" and "B", then the exit is invoked from the ISPF command line as:

EXEC MYEXEC A B

and the parameters can be received in the exit using:

PARM1 = ARG(1)
PARM2 = ARG(2)

Note that

PARSE ARG PARM1 PARM2

will not work as expected.

For information on creating your own Formatting user exits, and making these available to your environment, see User-specific report formatting.