Analyzing Dumps Symbolically: CA SymDump for CICS Option › Manage Dumps

Manage Dumps

CA SymDump Option also lets you control which CICS dumps to save, discard, and print. It has its own dump data set, which is separate from the CICS dump data set. You can even route dumps to both data sets. It is easy to manage the CA SymDump Option data set because you can do the following tasks:

• List all dumps. You will know immediately when each dump was created and which transaction and program produced it. You can quickly select the dumps you want to view online.
• Delete specific dumps. You can delete the dumps you do not want and keep the ones you need. As a result, you avoid those situations where CICS stops writing dumps because the dump data set is filled.
• Hold specific dumps. You can specify which dumps you want to retain for future use.
• Print specific dumps. It is no longer necessary to print the entire dump data set to get printouts of selected dumps. You can even print an index of all the dumps in the dump data set.