How to get a dump

To get a dump at an abend, use the JCL and program control statements shown in Table 1. You get additional abend information when DFSORT’s ESTAE recovery routine is in effect. At the beginning of each run, DFSORT establishes an ESTAE recovery routine to trap system or user abends for Blockset and Peerage⁄Vale applications. The ESTAE recovery routine remains in effect unless you use installation option ESTAE=NO or run-time option NOESTAE to delete it.

Table 1. Getting a Dump
If you received	Then use
A user or system abend code	//SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=A
A condition code 16	//SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=A //DFSPARM DD * DEBUG ABEND
Note: If your program invokes DFSORT and does not pass the DFSORT return code to the system, the listing’s condition code might not be the actual DFSORT return code. To determine if the code in the listing is from DFSORT, find out how your program handles return codes.

If you invoke DFSORT from a COBOL program, you might receive a COBOL dump and a DFSORT dump. For the procedures in this manual, use only the DFSORT dump.

If you are using PL/I, you must specify the NOSPIE and NOSTAE macro at run time to ensure that you receive a DFSORT dump. If you do not, you might receive only a PL/I dump.