Dump Creation

The z/OS® MVS™ System Commands reference (SA22-7627-xx) contains the most up-to-date information about using the DUMP command and this should ultimately be your source of information for taking dumps of z/OS address spaces.

For convenience however, here are the proper commands and format for capturing a dump of an OMEGAMON® address space at the time of this writing:

DUMP COMM=’...arbitrary dump title...’

The system will respond with a WTOR message like this:

*8297 IEE094D SPECIFY OPERAND(S) FOR DUMP COMMAND

You should reply:

R 8297,JOBNAME=stc_name,SDATA=(ALLNUC,CSA,LPA,PSA,RGN,SQA,SUM,TRT),END

Where stc_name is the name of the started task you are attempting to dump.

Some product components use data spaces as repositories for collected data. If your problem involves one of these components that you should use dump parameters that will cause the data space(s) to be included in the dump. The syntax for including the data space looks like the following:

R 8297,JOBNAME=stc_name,SDATA=(ALLNUC,CSA,LPA,PSA,RGN,SQA,SUM,TRT), DSPNAME=(’stc_name’.dspname,...),END

Use the following table to find the value for dspname:

Table 1. DSPNAME value
Component Where to find it in the RKLVLOG
Dataset-level I/O statistics collector The names are not in the log but they are 00001CND and 00002CND.
HSM Log Analyzer Obtain from RKLVLOG msg KDFS210I
SMS MCDS Analyzer Obtain from RKLVLOG msg KDFS208I
Dataset Groups Obtain from RKLVLOG msg KS3G031I
RMM collector Obtain from RKLVLOG msg KS3R204I
Dataset Attributes Database Obtain from RKLVLOG msg KS3A000D