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RETURN Statements in the )PROC Section of a TLM Rule

The OPS/REXX RETURN statement must specify one of the following values:

NORMAL

Returns without granting a time limit extension. Unless another IEFUTL SMF exit in the system grants an extension, the system terminates the job or address space.

EXTEND

Extends the time limit exceeded by the number of seconds in the TLM.EXTEND variable.

Default: RETURN NORMAL

The return values listed here are character constants rather than keywords. An unrecognized return value, for example, a misspelled value, defaults to a value of NORMAL.

If multiple TLM rules are active, and more than one return EXTEND is performed, then the last non-zero value specified for variable TLM.EXTEND is used as the time extension seconds value.

To nullify the extension granted by a prior TLM rule, a rule may set TLM.EXTEND to zero and return NORMAL.