Well, I started with formatted (there were no unformatted dumps and no IPCS) dumps, and they are a royal pain. Except for the most trivial cases, it's a lot more convenient with IPCS.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on behalf of Mike Hochee [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 11:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SDUMPs Hi Tony, I frequently use the procedure Gary mentioned which results in a formatted dump. I suspect IPCS might be overkill, but I don't know your situation. I'm sure folks exist who cut the teeth on MVS dump reading by starting out with unformatted dumps and IPCS, but I don't know of any. The formatted SYSUDUMP is pretty straightforward. If you have any questions, there is a section in the chapter on ABEND dumps in this manual... https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3ga320905/$file/ieav100_v2r3.pdf The zap utility mentioned is also in there if you need it, and called SPZAP. HTH, Mike
