DUMP PSWG

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Notes:
  • 1 There must be at least one blank between the first and second operands.

Authorization

Privilege Class: G

Purpose

Use DUMP PSWG to send the program status word of your z/Architecture® or z/XC virtual machine to your virtual printer.

Operands

ALL
dumps the current values and appropriate interrupt information for the current PSW and all old and new interrupt PSWs (except restart).
EXT
I/O
MCH
PRG
PROG
SVC
dumps the current values and appropriate interruption information for both the new and old PSWs specified—that is, SVC, program check, machine check, I/O, or external.
*dumpid
identifies a 1- to 80-character string that is to be assigned to the dump. If specified, *dumpid must be the last operand you enter on the command line.

Usage Notes

  1. To dump the PSW for an ESA/390 or ESA/XC virtual machine, use the DUMP PSW command.

Responses

The response to all DUMP options is "Command complete". What follows is a description of the dump information in the generated print file.

Response 1:

The command DUMP PSWG with no other options formats the current PSW for a print file. 
PSW = 03E40000 80000000 00000000 0003010C

Response 2:

The command DUMP PSWG ALL formats the old and new PSWs and expands the interruption code into four hexadecimal digits in front of the old PSWs. nnnn represents the interruption code. The numbers 130, 140, 150, … are storage locations. Each xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx represents the content of a PSW. 
PSW = 03E40000 80000000 00000000 0003010C
EXT nnnn 130 OLD xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
         1B0 NEW xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
SVC nnnn 140 OLD xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
         1C0 NEW xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
PRG nnnn 150 OLD xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
         1D0 NEW xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
MCH nnnn 160 OLD xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
         1E0 NEW xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
I/O nnnn 170 OLD xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
         1F0 NEW xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx