Well, chacun à son goût; there's a lot that IPCS can format, and hand decoding from the hexadecimal storage dump is so 19th Century.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Thomas David Rivers <riv...@dignus.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 1:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Description of the format of a SYSUDUMP Well - I've been reading SYSUDUMPs for a long time, but I've never found a pretty precise description of the various pieces of the dump. The newer z/OS doc seems to just want to point you to IPCS, but I rather like just reading the dump. My particular question is the LINES XXXXXXXX-YYYYYYYY SAME AS ABOVE in a memory dump. Does that mean the the single line (of 32-bytes) just before this line is copied as many times to fill in the space between XXXXXXXX and YYYYYYYY, or does it mean that all of the previously described memory (for as many bytes as needed) is copied? (I think it has to mean that the single line above is copied (YYYYYYYY-XXXXXXXX)/32 times... but - I'm just checking.) Seems like I recall, at some point, a pretty precise document on the format of a SYSUDUMP - but I can't seem to find it now... if anyone remembers what that might be a pointer to that would be welcome. - Many thanks! - - Dave Rivers - -- riv...@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe programming tools at http://secure-web.cisco.com/144TX4E8Q563hXTubhfpMwyeSn57fYu_b5D3kQ1E9Cs-7NOWRG5IVEaAnBjmjs06yFtHEE0aiTLJYBbZeb2wAHzWM2w-IGdjQgybi7KGTtBp_WVePBjaDBhJlUCr34XyL76_2j8N_K-v9w6yat8z6dnXU4rw9FInwnaFTJhY_5wrwlmqCRgRHQe-DVf8FTrA10JhdArc4JaNAVdeavOSABWP0VKrcVcLLS5GHyQOqbhJq7Z-Vfw5trNlSqAfE4yUX9a_tS7KjwwdnvTS42Qo9Kh2aREdd-YLQ7PwaLJ2COW_HHd28v7iK3YxClN7wT67Nh7Mi6Ml1_n0QYf_h_4CG38Mwxp1zPbKKmQWlRtVrx8AgZ4jdMaAVzt4jEFXKGUiOQfGOs2D7dY68P4nLHn8KD_Aip-XkvTbRSeTw6QUIZDNbbc92gV6hTJwWNwCrKbmr/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dignus.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
