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Basic Structure of Program Exits

Program exits are referred to as pre-operation or post-operation (that is, some operation that Provisioning Manager is used to performing). Program exits have a single common interface for their calling structure. This interface consists of a single argument and a single return value. The single argument is an XML buffer representation, encoded in Unicode Transformation Format 8 (UTF-8), of the object being acted upon combined with any custom information from the definition of the exit. The return value is status information about the result of the program exit execution as well as any documented custom information that is required for a particular exit.