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How CA SymDump Option Works with Your CICS Dump Data Set

CA SymDump Option contains only application dumps; system dumps are still written to your CICS dump data set. When the CA SymDump Option is installed, your system programmers can specify which dumps they do not want written to either the CA SymDump Option or the CICS dump data set to save DASD space. For example, they can exclude all AKCT abends.

CA InterTest for CICS automatically deletes old dumps from the CA SymDump Option data set when space is needed for new ones. However, you determine how frequently dumps are deleted. You can also specify that certain dumps be held so they are not deleted. If the CA SymDump Option data set becomes full (that is, full of dumps that cannot be deleted), new dumps are written to your CICS dump data set instead of to the CA SymDump Option data set.