On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 11:50:49 -0700, Edward E. Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Knutson, Sam wrote: > >>In addition to the data set attributes Bob Wright already pointed out you >>should always make sure that that the SVC dump was a COMPLETE dump. >> > >Now there's a blast from the past! In the olden days, when pre-allocated >SYS1.DUMPxx data sets were required, we used to get those from time to >time. What a PITA! Thankfully, this doesn't happen with modern, >dynamically allocated dump data sets. > You can still get a partial dump with dynamically allocated dump data sets (and even if there is plenty of dasd space) if the MAXSPACE dump option isn't large enough. I've had to increase it periodically on some of our larger DB2 and WAS LPARs. I think one of them is up to MAXSPACE=8000M but most are set smaller. IIRC the default is only 500M. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

