dump—dump the Printer Inventory to a file

Format

Description

The dump command writes the contents of the Printer Inventory to the named file. Your IBM® service representative might ask you to use the dump command to assist IBM in diagnosing problems in the Printer Inventory.

Operands

filename

The name of the output file, which can be a UNIX file or an MVS™ data set. The output file does not need to exist. However, if the file already exists, the contents are overwritten.

If the data set is an MVS data set, specify // before the file name. If you specify a fully-qualified data set name, also enclose the data set name in single quotation marks and specify a backslash before each single quotation mark. For example, if the output file is named USERID.MYFILE, enter:

//\'USERID.MYFILE\'

If you want your TSO user ID prefixed to the data set name, specify:

//MYFILE

Usage notes

• If you allocate an MVS data set for the output file, IBM suggests that you use RECFM=VB and LRECL=8192. However, other values might be suitable as well.
• To write the contents of the Printer Inventory to a file in a more readable format, or to back up the Printer Inventory, use the export command.

Examples -- dump

This example writes the contents of the Printer Inventory to file named inventory.dump:

pidu -c 'dump inventory.dump ; ' 

This example writes the contents of the Printer Inventory to an MVS data set named USER1.INVENT.DUMP:

pidu -c "dump //\'USER1.INVENT.DUMP\' ; "