Installing the IMS Dump Formatter

You can install the IMS Dump Formatter by updating several DD concatenations.

Prerequisite: Before you begin installing the IMS Dump Formatter, make sure that you have IPCS already functioning with ISPF/PDF.

Perform the following procedure:

Procedure

  1. Install the IMS Dump Formatter by updating the DD concatenations listed in Table 1:
    Table 1. DD concatenations to update
      DDNAME Data Set to Be Added Contents of Data Set
    SYSPROC IMS.SDFSCLST CLISTs
      IMS.SDFSEXEC REXX EXEC
    ISPMLIB IMS.SDFSMLIB Messages
    ISPPLIB IMS.SDFSPLIB Panels
    ISPTLIB IMS.SDFSTLIB Tables
    IPCSPARM IMS.SDFSMAC All IMS macros
    Note: DFSIPCSP is the only member that is used from this data set.
    TASKLIB IMS.SDFSRESL Formatting modules
    Note: The TASKLIB concatenation is specified as part of the IPCS command invocation.
    SYS1.PARMLIB (for IPCSPR00 member) MACLIB DD and IMS.SDFSMAC  
  2. Add the Offline Dump Formatting module name to the Print Dump Exit Control Table in the SYS1.PARMLIB member BLSCECTX.

    The IMS Offline Dump Formatting module should already be defined to z/OS® as part of z/OS preconditioning for IMS. If the definition is missing, update the BLSCECTX member of SYS1.PARMLIB with the following:

    EXIT EP(DFSOFMD0) VERB(IMSDUMP) ABSTRACT('IMS analysis')

For more information about BLSCECT (the Formatting exit routines for dump and trace analysis for IPCS), see z/OS MVS™ Initialization and Tuning Reference.

The IMS IVP job IV_D202T also provides an example.