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How You Analyze Production Dumps from Your Test Regions

This scenario assumes that you want to analyze production dumps in your test region with symbolic support. You may prefer this method if you want to take advantage of the combined symbolic capabilities of CA SymDump for CICS without running the CA SymDump for CICS dump analysis component in production.

To analyze production dumps from your test regions, you need

• To read access to the production symbolic file and CA SymDump for the CICS dump data set from a test region
• To install and have running the complete version of CA SymDump for CICS in test region

  The CA SymDump for CICS application that executes in production only captures the transaction dumps in the production region

  CA SymDump for CICS in the test region captures its own transaction dumps, but can display the dumps captured by both production and test regions

• To have loaded the CICS file definitions in the test region that reference the production symbolic file and the CA SymDump for CICS dump data set (see Defining CICS File Entries)