Interactively Analyzing Dump Data

The Dump Viewing Facility provides a variety of commands and subcommands that allow the user to interactively locate and display dump data. Use the Dump Viewing Facility to do the following:

• Display real program status words, registers, clocks, and the timer
• Display formatted data from any z/VM control block or data area
• Display data in hexadecimal and EBCDIC
• Display data using 24- or 31-bit indirect addressing
• Display a chain of control block addresses in hexadecimal or display the data within the control blocks
• Locate a hexadecimal or EBCDIC string in the dump
• Print output from any DUMPSCAN subcommand
• Determine a module entry point and displacement, given an address
• Determine an address, given a module or entry-point name
• Scroll forward or backward while viewing hexadecimal data
• Create a load map of module names and their entry points with addresses and displacements
• Assign symbolic names to subcommands
• Format, reduce, and scroll through trace tables within a dump dumps