Dynamic pathing services validation (DPSV) record

DPSV records are recorded on the logrec data set for DPSV recovery actions.

DPSV analyzes the sense path group identifier (SNID) to determine if the hardware dynamic pathing group is still valid and in synchronization with the software mapping.

Table 1. Format of the DPSV record
Offset Size (bytes) alignment (bits) Field name Description
Dec Hex
0 (0) 1 LRBHTYPE Type of Record:
    11.. ..1.   DPSV Record; type=X'C2'.
1 (1) 1 LRBHREL System/Release level:
    100. ....   OS/VS2.
    bits 3-7    
    0-1F   Release level 0-31.
2 (2) 1 LRBHSW0 Record independent switches:
    1... ....   More records follow.
    0... ....   Last record.
    .1.. ....   Time-of-day (TOD) clock instruction issued.
    ..1. ....   Record truncated.
    ...1 ....   Record created by MVS/SP Version 2, 3, or 4.
    .... 1...   TIME macro issued.
    .... .xxx   Reserved.
3 (3) 1 LRBHSW1 Reserved.
4 (4) 1 LRBHSW2 Reserved.
5 (5) 1 LRBHSW3 Reserved.
6 (6) 1 LRBHSW4 Reserved.
7 (7) 1 LRBHCNT Reserved.
8 (8) 4 LRBHDATE System date of incident.
12 (C) 4 LRBHTIME System time of incident.
16 (10) 1 LRBHCPID Machine version code.
17 (11) 3 LRBHCSER Central processor serial number. <
20 (14) 2 LRBHMDL Central processor machine model number.
22 (16) 2 LRBHMCEL Reserved.
        END OF STANDARD HEADER
24 (18) 8 LXCHDESC Name of the module requesting the dynamic pathing validation.
32 (20) 1 LXCHVERS Cx record's common header version field.
33 (21) 1 LXCHFLAG Cx record's common header flag field.
34 (22) 2 LXCHDVNM Device number in hexadecimal.
36 (24) 4 LXCHDTYP Device type information field.
40 (28) 8 LXCHRSVD Reserved.
48 (30) 1 LXC2CODE DPSV recording code.
49 (31) 1 LXC2FLAG DPSV flag field.
50 (32) 2 LXC2RSVL Reserved.
52 (34) 228 LXC2SNID Sense path group identifier (SNID) table data. See z/OS® MVS™ Data Areas in http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ for a detailed description of the SNID.
280 (118) 4 LXC2RSV2 Reserved.