You use the IMS Enhanced
Dump formatting menu to browse and select formatting options for database,
Fast Path, Transaction Manager and System dumps. There is also a tutorial
available about the formatter and how to use the filtering tool.
Procedure
Select option E from the IMS dump
formatting primary menu.
The IMS Enhanced Dump Formatting Menu displays, as
shown in the following figure.Figure 1. IMS Enhanced Dump Formatting
Menu
---------------------- IMS ENHANCED DUMP FORMATTING MENU
OPTION ===>
1 BROWSE - Browse dump dataset (IPCS norm)
2 DB - Full Function Data Base
3 FP - Fast Path Data Base
4 TM - Transaction Management and DC
5 SYS - Systems
6 DBRC - Database Recovery Control
T TUTORIAL - IMS Dump Formatter Tutorial
X EXIT - Exit EDA dump formatting menu
Enter END or RETURN command to terminate IMS component
In this panel, the control blocks are organized by function
for ease of use. For example, EPST (the extended partition specification
table) is located under option 3 for Fast Path.
To review tutorial information about the formatter and
about how to use the filtering tool, type T and press Enter.
To use a filtering tool to identify filtering criteria,
type on of the options 2, 3, 4, or 5 and press Enter.
An example of a filtering panel is shown in
the following figure.
Figure 2. Sample filtering panel
------------------ Generic Filtering Panel ---------------------
Explanation of the fields:
Offset (required) - Offset of the field in the block.
(hex)
Length (default = 1) - Length of field in the control
block. (decimal)
Cond (default = EQ) - Type of compare to be done. (EQ,NE,
GT,GE,LT,LE)
Bit (default = N) - Should comparison be a bit mask?
(Y or N)
Type (default = X) - Is the value type decimal, hex, or
char (D,X,A)?
Value (required) - Value of the field to be compared
at given offset.
Qual - Qualify filter to search in
sub-blocks.
AND/OR - How to combine multiple conditions.
If blank, only the first condition
will be executed.
(up to four conditions allowed).
You can overwrite the generic filtering panel default values.
For example, you can select criteria that presents two separate conditions.
By selecting AND you indicate that both conditions must be true
You want all the blocks starting at OFFSET 1C that have
a value of X'08.'
You want all the blocks starting at OFFSET A4 that have
a non-zero value.