Hi! We have a nightly automated process to search the catalog for any SVC dumps that may not have been processed during the course of the day. Typically, IEA611I is the catalyst to start the post-dump processing, such as creating an event in the Incident/Problem/Change system and deleting the disk data set after successful copy to tape. There are those occasions where a dump may occur where message automation is not available, hence the search of the catalog.
To assist our Operations staff in determining who owns the dump, as an automation administrator, I am trying to devise a way to get some information from the actual dump data set itself. From the name, I can determine where and when, but not much else: COM='DD NAME=SYS1.DUMP.&SYSNAME..D&LYYMMDD..T&LHHMMSS..S&SEQ' However, with the name, I can leverage some tools to open and read the data set to get pertinent info. For example, this NetView PIPE recipe can get what appears to be the TITLE and JOBNAME from the first record at columns 89 and 1151: WINDOW PIPE QSAM SYS1.DUMP.CP66.D190419.T043130.S00001|TAKE FIRST 1 LINE|EDIT 89.100 1 "¢" NW 1101.8 N "¢" NW 1151.150 N|SPLIT AT "¢"|CONS ONLY In place of guessing at the layout, I was wondering if there was some (public) documentation describing possible dump layouts? Opening and reading seems to be the *simplest* approach given the tools at hand. Invoking IPCS is an alternative, though the (NetView) environment may not be too conducive. Submitting a batch job to invoke IPCS is also an option, but working that into the automation procedure seems a bit complicated too. Any other ideas? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
