I would have said that adding CSA to every dump is not typically desirable.
As was suggested by a question, there is a difference between data asked for by a program on its own and data asked for by the DUMP command. For the former, the program is responsible for capturing what it thinks it needs. You probably do not want to add "CSA" for example to an SVC Dump asked for by RSM since RSM for all intents and purposes uses no CSA. But if using the DUMP command, it could be a good thing to add when you don't know what diagnostic data might be needed. The same is true for several of the options that you have landed with. But as long as size (and duration) of dumps is not a problem, then I'd far rather have too much data than too little. >Why LPA? Do you IPL w/ CLPA frequently? I couldn't tell if it was the case with the asker of this, but FWIW many people seem to think that the LPA option asks to dump all of LPA. It does not. It asks to include in the dump LPA modules represented by CDEs/LPDEs on the job pack queue of ASID(s) being dumped. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
