Your symbiont must call SMB$INITIALIZE before calling any other SMB routines. It calls SMB$INITIALIZE in order to do the following: o Allocate and initialize the SMB facility's internal database. o Establish the interface between the job controller and the symbiont. o Determine the threading scheme of the symbiont. o Set up the mechanism to wake your symbiont when a message is received. After the symbiont calls SMB$INITIALIZE, it can communicate with the job controller using the other SMB routines.