The vmur tool

The vmur command can receive a VMDUMP file from the z/VM® reader.

Issue a command of the following form:

# vmur receive <spool ID> <dump file name>

Parameters

<spool ID>: Specifies the spool ID of the VMDUMP file.
<dump file name>: Specifies the name of the output file to receive the data of the reader spool file.

For more details, see the vmur man page and Device Drivers, Features, and Commands, SC33-8411.

The vmur commands access the reader device, which must be online. To set it online, it needs to be freed from cio_ignore. Example:

# chzdev -ae c
Configuring devices in the active configuration only
Generic CCW device 0.0.000c configured

To receive a VMDUMP spool file with spool ID 463 to a file named myvmdump on the Linux® file system in the current working directory:

# vmur rec 463 myvmdump

Dumps that are received from the z/VM reader are in vmdump format. Use the zgetdump command to convert such dumps to the elf format.