Offline dump formatter

Offline dump formatting can reduce the duration of IMS outages by increasing the time required for an online IMS subsystem to terminate. You should be able to restart online subsystems faster as long as z/OS® remains operational.

Any DL/I batch job can also use offline dump formatting after calling for a SYSMDUMP.

IMS can produce a machine-readable dump for later offline formatting. This can be an SDUMP, SYSMDUMP, standalone dump, a dump produced using the DUMP command, or any other machine-readable dump, such as a z/OS SVC dump.