The interactive problem control system (IPCS) provides an interactive, online facility for diagnosing software failures. IPCS formats and analyzes dumps to produce reports that can be viewed online or printed. A diagnostician can request specific information in the report based on:

• Class of output
• Control blocks
• Devices
• Job number
• Job queue
• Job output queue
• Job class
• Network characteristics
• Processors
• Subtasks
• MAS member data
• Checkpoint control blocks on both DASD and coupling facility structures.