VERBEXIT SYMPTOM subcommand — format symptom string

Specify the SYMPTOM or SYMPTOMS verb name on the VERBEXIT subcommand to format the symptom strings contained in the header record of an SVC dump, SYSMDUMP dump, or stand-alone dump. The symptom strings are:

The primary symptom string, consisting of:
- Symptoms provided by dump analysis and elimination (DAE) in the dump header record when the dump is generated
- Symptoms in a literal definition, if it exists, of the IPCS symbol SECONDARYSYMPTOMS
The secondary symptom string, provided by IPCS as part of post-dump processing and including symptoms provided by the IPCS add symptom service

For the structure of symptom strings in a dump, see search arguments in z/OS V2R2 Problem Management.

There is a restriction on the space available to secondary symptom strings in the dump header. If the display does not contain the expected information, BROWSE the dump HEADER. Truncated secondary symptom strings end with the characters '-Truncated'. The entire symptom string is only available if it has been explicitly placed into the dump, or the storage pointed to by the SYMAD pointer in the SDUMP parameter list is available.

You can use the IPCS add symptom service to add secondary symptom strings up to 256 bytes. IPCS creates the literal definition of the symbol SECONDARYSYMPTOMS from the full symptoms that fit in the first 256 bytes of the new symptom string.

Parameters
The VERBEXIT SYMPTOM subcommand has no parameters.

Example: Obtain the symptom strings from the dump.

Action
```
VERBEXIT SYMPTOM
```

Result

                     * * * * S Y M P T O M * * * *

Primary Symptom String:

 RIDS/CSVLLCRE#L RIDS/CSVLLBLD PIDS/5655CICJ AB/S0FF0 RIDS/CSVLLBLD#R
 VALU/H016D182F REGS/09500 REGS/06026 VALU/COOKASIDE

 Symptom            Symptom data      Explanation
 ----------------   -------------     -----------
 RIDS/CSVLLCRE#L    CSVLLCRE#L        Routine identifier
 RIDS/CSVLLBLD      CSVLLBLD          Routine identifier
 PIDS/5655CICJ      5655CICJ          Component identifier
 AB/S0FF0           0FF0              ABEND code - system
 RIDS/CSVLLBLD#R    CSVLLBLD#R        Routine identifier
 VALU/H016D182F     016D182F          Error related hexadecimal value
 REGS/09560         09560             Program register
 REGS/06026         06026             Program register
 VALU/COOKASIDE     OOKASIDE          Error related character value


The dump does not contain a secondary symptom string.