Since you asked Alan,
I have taken exactly one Standalone Dump in my career. It was,
appropriately enough, while I worked at BofA.
We were rolling out a new CP, but when it got to one of the production
systems, the designated Ops console failed to come online in a timely
enough manner to be used. Using a trap with SADUMP, we were able to find
the problem in DMKMNT.
Marcy Cortes wrote:
I don't think we've ever had to take one. The PSW restart dump has
worked here. We had to do one of those when we had a sick DS8000. I
guess if the dump space had been on that device, then SA would have been
useful.
It would, however, take an act of god to ship an actual tape out of the
datacenter. We would have to load that back to DASD anyway.
Marcy Cortes
-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Ackerman
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 09:56
To: [email protected]
Subject: [IBMVM] Stand Alone Dump to Disk
I'm not sure when we really need a VM stand-alone dump. Usually a PSW
restaret will get us a dump. How often do you use stand-alone dumps?
