Cobwebb Exit Programs are used to retrieve information that is missing from the original spool file and that is required for the output document  e.g. retrieving a Customer Name using the Customer Account Number, retrieving a fax or email destination etc.

Depending upon the type of Cobwebb Exit Program these Exit Programs will have a different list of parameters - please see Cobwebb Exit Program Parameters for details.

Cobwebb supply an Advanced Re-Formatting Utility, in the form of an exit program, which allows you to totally control the format of your output document.

If you need to retrieve information about the spooled file that is being processed CPPD writes a lot of this information to a temporary data area called SPLATR in library QTEMP. Cobwebb supply an Exit Program called COBSPLATR which will return most of this information. For details of the SPLATR data area please see SPLATR Data Area Definition.

Cobwebb supply numerous Standard Exit Programs which may be used for things such as Adding values, Formatting Dates, Validating File Names etc. Please see Supplied Exit Programs for more details. We also supply a Test Harness Suite to help you test your exit programs both outside and inside a PPD file.