Requesting dumps of other systems

In a sysplex, a problem can involve several or all of the systems. The IEATDUMP macro can request a Transaction dump of the local system address space and, using the REMOTE parameter, a Transaction dump of one or more address spaces on the same or different systems. Using the parameters on the macro, you can make the dump requests the same or different, depending on the areas you think a diagnostician will need for any problems.

In systems in a sysplex, the installation should specify names that form patterns so that all the names can be specified in one value that contains wildcards. In the IEATDUMP macro, you can use wildcards, * and ?, to identify all or some names, based on the patterns for the names. For example, jobs can be named TRANS1, TRANS2, TRANS3, ... , TRANS17. A jobname of TRANS* in the IEATDUMP macro will dump all of them.

Note: If a Transaction dump uses the REMOTE parameter to dump one or more address spaces on a pre-release 4 system, the result will be a single SVC dump containing the requested data, instead of one or more Transaction dumps written to data set names specified with the DSN parameter. Issue the DISPLAY DUMP,STATUS command to determine the name of this SVC dump. In the IEATDUMP macro, you can use wildcards in system names, address space identifiers, job names, XCF groups, XCF members, and data space names.