Processing dumps

You can copy and transfer the dump file to another system, reduce the dump size, and send the reduced dump to IBM® Support.

• To copy and transfer an LPAR dump on DASD, tape, or SCSI dump to another system, use the zgetdump command, see zgetdump - Copy and convert kernel dumps.
  With kdump, you can transmit the dump through a network. Use existing mechanisms to prevent conflicts when concurrently writing multiple dumps to a shared persistent storage space.
• To analyze the dump, you can use crash, see crash - Analyze kernel dumps.
• To receive a VMDUMP file, use the vmur command, see vmur - Receive dumps from the z/VM reader