Unfortunately not every shop makes IPCS available to application programmers. Some of us are stuck with just two choices - commercial abend analyzer selected by bean counters or read the SYSUDUMP yourself.
Some skills from the days of paper mounds are still important. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 12:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mysterious Abend 0C1 On 22 May 2013 12:39, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/22/2013 8:34 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >> >> Of course, the OP discovered later that 'dump analyser picked up the wrong >> PSW '. > > This is why I stopped using all dump analyzers (other than my own brain) > over two decades ago! It's not obvious that "dump analyser" meant a program as opposed to a person. > I'd much rather find the PSW and registers myself--starting with SYSTRACE > and working from there. But then you're trusting IPCS (presumably) to format the trace entries correctly. Something it has been known to silently get wrong, if there is a version mismatch between IPCS and dump. Tony H. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
