Building an abend keyword

This topic describes how to build an abend keyword for an abend occurring while you are using the DFSMSrmm ISPF dialog, or when you are running DFSMSrmm outside the dialog by using the RMM TSO subcommands.

You can identify an abend using any one of these methods:

A program's printed system output
A system message's text
An ISPF abend panel
A TSO message identifying an abend condition
A SYS1.LOGREC record

Also, when DFSMSrmm abnormally ends, the system produces one or more of these outputs:

DFSMSrmm ISPF dialog abend panel
SVC Dump
SYSABEND, SYSMDUMP, or SYSUDUMP

This topic explains how to gather the information to add to your keyword string as follows:

For the DFSMSrmm ISPF dialog:
- ABENDXXX (required)
- RC (optional)
For the rest of DFSMSrmm:
- ABENDXXX (required)
- MODULE (optional)
- OFFSET (optional)