> I wonder how many other people routinely ensure they have a usable dump > available back at the office after any test day. > Barbara maybe ... ;-)
It was usually a fight to get a dump saved, in some cases to get the dump taken in the first place, especially when I am the only one in the installation who can actually *read* the dump afterwards. No dumps got taken if I wasn't there to demand them. In my last job, the boss'boss eventually even gave the ok to take a standalone dump of an AE machine during the day because he *knew* I would find something to get us closer to a solution. Took a few years to get there, though. And never mind that *taking* the sadump should not be the problem, getting the operators to find the docs and act upon it took at least twice as long as the actual sadump did. I believe using IPCS and reading dumps is a dying art practised only by a few magicians these days. A shame, really. <coming off of my soap box now> Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
