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SVC Dump Data Sets

CA View issues SVC dumps (SDUMP) for certain types of abends. These dumps are written to the MVS SYS1.DUMP.nn. data sets.

Verify that the data sets are allocated with at least 100 cylinders.

Dump Analysis and Elimination

The CA View SDUMP program supports MVS/ESA dump analysis and elimination processing. This MVS/ESA feature eliminates the possibility of duplicate SVC dumps being written to the SYS1.DUMP.nn. data sets.

To use this feature, the SYS1.DAE data set must be allocated and the following parameter members must be updated in SYS1.PARMLIB:

IEACMDxx
SET DAE = xx

where xx identifies the ADYSETxx. member.

ADYSETxx
DAE=START,RECORDS(sss),SVCDUMP(MATCH,UPDATE,SUPPRESS

where sss is the number of records in SYS1.DAE.

System Dump Parameters

CA View allocates storage from MVS subpool 230.

For this storage area to be dumped correctly, the IEADMRxx. member in SYS1.PARMLIB should contain the SDATA RGN parameter:

SDATA=(...,RGN,...)

The IEADMPxx. member in SYS1.PARMLIB should contain the SDATA LSQA parameter:

SDATA=(...,LSQA,...) 

Important! If these dump parameters are not specified as shown in the previous example, certain storage areas could be missing from dumps, which can hinder support efforts.