7.3. Dumping address spaces
Generally the system will automatically capture a dump when it detects a serious error with an operating system component (for example, JES, VTAM, and so forth), a subsystem (for example, CICS, DB2, MQ), or an application program. For most system or subsystem failures an SVC (Supervisor Call) dump will be generated and will be written out to a pre-defined, or dynamically defined, dump data set. You do, however, have the ability to manually capture a dump should you need to capture specific diagnostic data.
7.3.1. DUMP command
The DUMP command requests a system dump (SVC dump) of virtual storage. The data set may be either a pre-allocated dump data set named SYS1.DUMPxx, or an automatically allocated dump data set ...
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