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Obtain Dumps

If CA-L-Serv experiences an error or abend, you can obtain the following types of dumps for diagnostic purposes:

• An unformatted SVC dump of the CA-L-Serv address space and selected areas of common storage. This dump is placed in a SYS1.DUMPxx data set.
• A formatted dump of the CA-L-Serv address space. This dump is placed in the data set identified by a //SYSUDUMP or //SYSABEND DD statement in the CA-L-Serv startup procedure.

By default, CA-L-Serv generates an unformatted SVC dump.

You can disable the SVC dump feature of CA-L-Serv by issuing the following command:

OPTIONS SVCDUMP(NO)

Note: The CA-L-Serv recovery routines suppress the generation of duplicate SVC dumps. CA recommends that the SVCDUMP feature be left active at all times, particularly on complex production environments where formatted dumps are often not sufficient to investigate the causes of problems.