Formatting transaction dumps

You can format transaction dumps offline using the CICS dump utility program, DFHDU710. Individual transaction dumps must be formatted in their entirety, but you can control which dumps are formatted from the dump data set.

About this task

You can select dumps to be formatted as follows:
  • Those taken in a specific period of time
  • Those associated with a specific transaction identifier
  • Those taken for a specific transaction dump code
  • Those having specific dump ID - that is, those for specific CICS runs and dump count values.

You can also use the SCAN option with the dump utility program, to get a list of the transaction dumps recorded on the specified dump data set.

For information about using DFHDU710 to format transaction dumps, see the Dump utilities (DFHDU700 and DFHPD700).