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Abend-AID viewing server advanced configuration

A viewing server is an MVS address space. The viewing server does not need to be active to take dumps, but it must be active to view any dump information or to import SVC dumps. BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID recommends that you run the viewing server as a started task that is always available.

Your site must have at least one Abend-AID viewing server, although you can run multiple viewing servers if it better suits your needs. You must repeat the steps in the Abend-AID viewer configuration tasks section of the Abend-AID Installation and Configuration Guide for each viewing server you want to create. For the initial installation, We recommend you create only one viewing server. You can easily add additional viewing servers after you are more familiar with the Abend-AID Viewer.

Each viewing server has data sets that it owns. Except for the shared directory and the Scratchpad listing files, these data sets cannot be shared between servers. The viewing server data sets were allocated by executing the jobs generated into the Abend-AID installation sample library hlq.CTL member $$VWRLOG, as described in the Abend-AID Installation and Configuration Guide.

If you are licensed for both Abend-AID and Abend-AID for CICS, the steps for using one viewing server for both batch and CICS transaction reports are also described in Sharing-a-viewing-server-with-Abend-AID-for-CICS. Other Abend-AID Viewer configurations are described in Site-configuration-examples.

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