In IMS V11, PTF UK47419 for APAR PK86958 is now available.

  APAR Identifier ...... PK86958      Last Changed ........ 09/07/01
  IMPLEMENT DYNAMIC IMS ABEND DUMP FORMAT EXIT.

Brian

On Tue, 16 May 2006 10:54:43 -0400, Knutson, Sam wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I opened a marketing request with IBM.  If you are running IMS please
>take time to contact your IBM technical marketing representative and
>concur on this. I would appreciate this as having more customers
>standing up and saying they want this change to IMS operation and
>installation is going to help make the case for it.
>
>User Group Number - MR0514064454
>Document Status - Recognized
>Title - Eliminate the DFSAFMD0 USERMOD to update IGC0805A IEAVADFM and
>do this dynamically
>IBM agrees with the request and a solution appears to be a desirable
>objective. A solution however may not presently appear feasible or
>implementable. No IBM commitment is made or implied as to the eventual
>delivery of an acceptable solution.
>
>I will also be working on getting a similar SHARE requirement entered.
>
>        Best Regards,
>
>                Sam Knutson, GEICO
>

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:10:25 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote:

>  We already have the general purpose dynamic exit service - CSVDYNEX.
>
>  It would not be difficult to define a dynamic exit for SNAP/ABDUMP and
>call it from IEAVAD08 (which is the non-OCO module which calls the exits
>zapped into IEAVADMN).  However, in SP2.1.5 (around 1983),
>a broadcast SSI call (for the "HELP" function code (decimal 48))
>was added to IEAVAD08, and some comments in the module suggest that this
>was done for IMS.  I talked to an IMS developer, and he was unaware of
>this SSI function (he has only been in IMS since 1985, and even I was
>unaware of it until today), but was willing
>to look into using it in a future release of IMS to remove the need
>for zapping IEAVADMN.  It wouldn't be a bad idea to submit a
>requirement to IMS to this effect.
>
>  As for the products which intercept SVC 51, it would likely be possible
>to provide a dynamic exits which could be used instead intercepting,
>but we (IBM) would need know a bit more about what the products require
>as far as what point in dump processing they need to be called,
>and what needs to be provided as parameters.  So I would suggest
>that you get after the owners of the products which are intercepting
>SVC 51 and ask them present their interface requirements to IBM.
>
>
>Jim Mulder   z/OS System Test   IBM Corp.  Poughkeepsie,  NY
>

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:12:06 -0400, Knutson, Sam wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am curious if anyone has had a discussion with IBM about providing a
>service similar the RESMGR, which was provided to allow dynamic
>installation of Installation written or IBM/VENDOR supplied Resource
>Managers, to allow dynamic installation of supplied dump formatters.
>The current IMS V9 documentation references this static user
>modification and I cannot see a way to do it dynamically.
>
>Binding the Abend Formatting Routine Bind the abend formatting module
>DFSAFMD0 into SYS1.LPALIB or an MLPA library as CSECT DFSAFMD0, load
>module DFSAFMD0. Also add the DFSAFMD0 load module name to IEAVADFM
>CSECT of module IGC0805A in SYS1.LPALIB. DFSAFMD0 is downward
>compatible. Upward compatibility is not supported. The most current
>version of this module must be used.
>
>So at the request of our IMS team we still maintain this USERMOD.
>
>//SMPPTFIN DD  *
>++ USERMOD (LIMS222) REWORK(2005280).
>++ VER (Z038) FMID(HBB7709)
>   /* THIS IS THE IMS FORMAT DUMP ZAP INTO MVS SVC 51
>      IN LPALIB. (IGC0805A).
>      - ASYS : DSN=SYS2.IMS.RESLIB
>      - BSYS : DSN=IMSVSTST.RESLIB
>   */ .
>++ ZAP(IEAVADFM).
>  NAME IGC0805A IEAVADFM
>  VER 0000 0000000000000000
>  REP 0000 C4C6E2C1C6D4C4F0
>/*
>
>
>I am going to pursue a requirement but want to see if there is a good
>alternative or maybe an existing requirement we can concur on.
>
>        Best Regards,
>
>                Sam Knutson, GEICO

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