In a sysplex, a problem can involve several or all of the systems. The SDUMPX macro can request an SVC dump on the local system and, using the REMOTE parameter, an SVC dump on one or more of the other systems in the sysplex. Using the parameters on the macro, you can make the dump requests the same or different, depending on the areas you think a diagnostician will need for any problems.
In systems in a sysplex, the installation should specify names that form patterns so that all the names can be specified in one value that contains wildcards. In the SDUMPX macro, you can use wildcards, * and ?, to identify all or some names, based on the patterns for the names. For example, jobs can be named TRANS1, TRANS2, TRANS3, ... , TRANS17. A jobname of TRANS* in the SDUMPX macro will dump all of them. In the SDUMPX macro, you can use wildcards in system names, address space identifiers, job names, XCF groups, XCF members, and data space names.