ending condition (ABEND) and cause the dumping of system registers and
storaqe. The device that receives these records can be a tape, printer,
or disk device.
A system restart dump is taken when the system operator presses the
restart in some other manner as dictated by the processor device type.
In an
before the system restart is initiated.
Dumping operations are caused by any program interruptions or system
restart condition. These interruptions cause routines to gather data
from registers and storage and place this data on a previously defined
device.
be dumped.
For example:
device. (The disk dump area is
initialization time if sufficient contiguous space is available.)
or tape device. The real hexadecimal one to three
is substituted for the raddr operand.
The ALL operand used with
of storage onto to the
specified, the system defaults to dumping only those areas that pertain
to
If you dump to a disk file, an additional operation is necessary to
transform these records into readable output for programmers or system
analysts.
Note that expanded function is available to the
generated for the
refer to the
options must be invoked for printout.
are spooled as a special virtual card reader file. This card reader
file is assigned during system generation to a specific virtual machine
user via the
these
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