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Using the Electronic Notepad

The Electronic Notepad allows each user to maintain notes for each dump they view. The notepad is free-format and dynamically sized, allowing you to enter comments while viewing the dump.

Notepad records are 126 bytes wide to fill a 132-column screen format, and are horizontally scrollable for 80-column displays. You can enter any kind of data in the notepad because there is no syntax checking.

To open a notepad from the Dump Index display, place an N in the Cmd column next to the dump entry and press ENTER. You can also type NOTES on the command line and press ENTER. Then, when prompted enter the name of the reports data set for the dump.

To open a notepad for an open dump while viewing, type NOTES on the command line and press ENTER.

The first time you open the notepad for a new dump, the following message appears:

CA SymDump System V9.0 --------- Dump Index ---------------------- Line 1 of 9 Command ===>                                                   Scroll ===> CSR  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Index Dsna +------------------------------------------------------+             ---------- |                                                      | ----- Lvl 1 Cmd  Syste | No notes were found for the dump you selected.       |   Time       .   E100  |                                                      |   10.25.57   N   XAE1  | Press ENTER to start a new notepad for dump data set |   16.08.53   .   XAE1  |                                                      |   16.01.01   .   E100  | ===> PUBLIC.DUMPVIEW.CB7E95E2.A30A0CE3               |   11.15.05   .   E100  |                                                      |   14.20.19   .   TEST  | Press END to cancel the notes request.               |   07.32.55   .   XAE1  |                                                      |   13.27.11   .   XE44  +------------------------------------------------------+   12.18.16   .   XE44      009B  CARAC120  COBDEMO   0001B8C  AP0001  2009/03/31  16.40.52  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Press Enter to create a new notepad for the dump.

The Electronic Notepad is shown here:

CA SymDump System V9.0 --------- Notes -------------------------- Line 1 of 13 Command ===>                                                   Scroll ===> CSR  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dump Dsname: PUBLIC.DUMPVIEW.CB7E95E2.A30A0CE3                                  Last Update: 2009/07/18 @ 16:09:15                                              ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lvl 4 Cmd  ....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....  .                                                                               .   Active Task:      Task #0037  Tran STGV  Term G001  User CICSUSER           .                     Date 07/11/2009 at 16.08.53                               .                                                                               .   Storage Overlay:  UDSA at 001C0440 for 0000380 bytes.                       .                                                                               .   EXPLANATION:  A storage violation has been detected by the                  .   storage violation trap, which may be enabled via the CHKSTSK                .   or the CHKSTRM system initialization parameters or via the                  .   CSFE transaction.  The code X' code ' is the exception                      .   trace point ID which uniquely identifies the type of storage                .   violation detected.                                                         .                                                                              -------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                                                  F1=HELP      F2=SPLIT     F3=END       F4=DUMP      F5=RFIND     F6=MAP   F7=UP        F8=DOWN      F9=SWAP     F10=LEFT     F11=RIGHT    F12=RETRIEVE

Use the Cmd column to insert or delete lines from notepad using the I or D line commands, respectively.

The content of the notepad is stored in your user profile when you close the notepad, and is restored from the profile whenever you open the notepad.