We thank you for your "vastly superior". 😊 I was using FA to bounce around dumps well before I got involved with the product.
Cheers Hank, FA Dev -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Monday, 22 June 2020 14:49 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Reading a dump [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] Agreed! Especially if you compile with GONUM. Sometimes, you do need to dig a bit deeper. For this I use Fault Analyzer which has a fastly superior UI compared to IPCS. I only crack open IPCS when I need to format control blocks or read the systrace. On 2020-06-22 1:08 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > +1 !!! > > Look at the LE or C runtime options books and get yourself a CEEDUMP. > Debugging from one is a little bit of a learning exercise of its own > but FAR superior to SYSUDUMP for 9 out of 10 (or perhaps 99 out of > 100) C runtime errors. You will get the exact line number of the > offending source statement, and the call trace of how you got there, > perhaps some relevant variables, and a hex dump of the field that gave > you the S0C4 (although that last one may require a little looking). > > Purists may object. Yeah, if you are a hardcore MVS debugger, go for > it with IPCS. (But if the OP were a hardcore MVS debugger, he would > not have written the query that he did.) > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Don Poitras > Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2020 3:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Reading a dump > > Since the program is written in C, SYSUDUMP really isn't the easiest > place to look for info. > CEEDUMP will show the regs and a traceback which is usually all that's > needed. See TERMTHDACT option for how to generate a CEEDUMP. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ::DISCLAIMER:: ________________________________ The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
