Is there an Exit Program when Promoting to Production?

[mguske]

In our IBMi 'green screen' environment, when we promote programs into Production, we have a program that sends e-mail notifications to various groups letting them know of the program change.
Is there an Exit Program equivalent in Valence that I can use to notify our groups when Apps are promoted to Production?

[robert.swanson]

Currently no, but I can certainly see the use case.

We'll put this on the todo list for the next release, and reach out to you directly when it's ready to test. Perhaps you'd be able to help Beta test its functionality to confirm the info sent into the exit program meets your specific notification needs.

[mguske]

Thanks for the response. Looking forward to implementing this issue :).

[mguske]

What about the contents of the SAVF in the VVEXPORT library?
Would one (or more) of the PFs be what I am looking for?

[robert.swanson]

Until the exit program is ready, you could set up a routine that monitors the VVEXPORTS file in library VVEXPORT on the destination system/partition. The last imported timestamp (VVLSTIMPTS) is updated whenever a NAB object is imported, with the corresponding destination library/instance stored in VVLSTIMPTO.

[mguske]

I can see the fields you referenced in VVEXPORT/VVEXPORTS:

Save File Name A260422426
Exported From Instance SPACE6D10
Object Type A
Exported ID 1321
Exported On 2026-04-22-10.21.56.468427
Exported By JHEINEMANN
Exported From Version 6.3.20251117.0
Last Imported To SPACE6P
Last Import Timestamp 2026-04-22-10.23.14.072617
Last Imported By JHEINEMANN
Description PAL - Non-compliance SPI Contacts by Div/Dist?

I'm going to assume the "Last Import Timestamp" is the Date/Time the "Description" name went live on my destination partition.

[robert.swanson]

Hello, just a quick note to mention that effective with Valence 6.4, there is now an exit program option available for NAB import, which is called both before and after and import attempt...
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The exit program template is in source member EXEXITPGMI. The exit program includes the ability to prevent an import on the 'before' attempt if desired.?