Something that I ran into at some point in the distant past, that *might* be a factor here:
I had a user that was abending with an out of storage condition at random moments, in programs such as xedit and filelist, without any seemingly useful cause. Close inspection of his working habits showed that he would do a filelist, edit a file, save it, do a filelist, compile, edit a file, save it, do a filelist... Notice that there are no exits involved. At the time of each crash, he would have as many as 15 or 20 xedit sessions going, and as many filelists open... All nested neatly. Teaching him about the PF3 key caused the problem to go away... The point being: Look at the user's workflow and see if there isn't some anomaly that might be the net cause of the problem. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation RO-OC-1-13 (new loc) 200 First Street SW 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ----- "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." -----Original Message----- From: VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Walter Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CMS Dump in Xedit Um, *occasionally* something run earlier during the same logon sessions may have left her PF keys set differently? What kind of dump is it that prints? CMS doesn't usually produce dumps through virtual printers, instead producing VMDUMPs. Could something be issuing the CP DUMP command (or a PFkey got set to it somehow)? What does the dump show? Is there an ABEND message of any kind? What does the PSW point to in the dump? What's in storage where the PSW points? Usually register 10 or 11 is a set as a base register; what's in that area of the dump pointed to by R10 and R11? What's in storage where R1 points? Maybe you want to SPOOL her console START to some other userid so that when she reports another dump you can look to see what was going on *before* she had the problem? Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.
