Jerry Ragland wrote:
I have a SYSMDUMP which is transferred from a mainframe system in to a unix system. I need to read that SYSMDUMP through IPCS in my mainframe machine. From the unix system I have transferred the dump to my mainframe (Z/OS v 1.4) machine. To transfer the dump from the unix machine, I did a binary FTP transfer.
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When I tried to open the SYSMDUMP using IPCS, IPCS fails to open the SYSMDUMP and gives the address space as RBA.
Customers send us SVC dumps all the time. They get transferred to a Linux system. We then pick them up and move them to a mainframe for analysis. Everything always works as it should.
SVC dumps have to be RECFM=FBS (very important!) with LRECL=4160 and BLKSIZE=a multiple of 4160. They also have obvious 'DR2' eyecatchers on each record. What do you see when you browse the dump using ISPF Browse? You should see something like this:
BROWSE SYS3.DUMP.D050830.T220459.DROURKE.S00056 ... Command ===> ... *************************************************** ... DR2 H ......................E.3Í................... ... DR2 CV......................E.3Í..........Ø........ ... DR2 CV......................E.3Í..........Ø........ ... DR2 CV...................P-.E.3Í....u.....Ø........ ... DR2 CV...................4..E.3Í..........Ø........ ... DR2 CV...................4..E.3Í..........Ø........ ... DR2 CV...................4 .E.3Í..........Ø........ ... DR2 CV...................4&.E.3Í..........Ø........ ... If you don't see this, neither does IPCS... -- .-----------------------------------------------------------------. | Edward E. Jaffe | | | Mgr, Research & Development | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Phoenix Software International | Tel: (310) 338-0400 x318 | | 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 | Fax: (310) 338-0801 | | Los Angeles, CA 90045 | http://www.phoenixsoftware.com | '-----------------------------------------------------------------' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
