True, and sometimes necessary, and a lot of the same dump-reading skills apply along with more-than-average knowledge of system architecture and control block structures. And they are a LOT bigger and thus take a wee bit longer to search.
The information is available, just not as conveniently as when one has IPCS available. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mysterious Abend 0C1 On 5/22/2013 10:10 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > 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. What about SYSABEND? ISTR that has SYSTRACE, RTM2WA, TCB, RB chains, etc. -- 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
