SYSDUMP

The SYSDUMP (SYS) service displays the title of the dump, as well as the date and time that the dump was taken for each active SYS1.DUMPxx data set.

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Services

This service also determines if SVC dumps should be retained or deleted, which helps prevent the loss of important dumps due to all dump data sets being full. (See CLEAR for information about clearing dump data sets.)

Syntax

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Example

To display information about each active dump data set, type

SYSDUMP

              [1]                                [2]     
AMTDU0I   SYS1.DUMP01  WAS FILLED AT 10:21 ON MAR 14, 2003
                [3]      
AMTDU1I   SOURCE=SVCDUMP
                [4]     
AMTDU2I   TITLE=ERROR IN TSO

Legend:

  1. full-dump data set
  2. time and date of dump
  3. system component that took the dump
  4. message text describing the dump

 

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