I remember one such product that intercepted ABENDs and dropped diagnostic data that would otherwise have appeared on the dump.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Farley, Peter x23353 <peter.far...@broadridge.com> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2019 11:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Description of the format of a SYSUDUMP All of which AssUMes that your local sysprog and security teams have deigned to make IPCS available to the ordinary application developer; not always the case I'm sad to report. I always liked and respected the DumpMaster ISV post-abend application debugging tool, but sadly I lost access to it a decade or more ago for $$$ reasons. The replacement product that was acquired (which I will not name to avoid flame wars and defamation suits) is wholly inadequate, buggy, and unreliable, at least as installed here. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2019 11:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Description of the format of a SYSUDUMP 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 - -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
