7.5. SLIP dumps

The SLIP command is set via the z/OS operator SLIP SET command. This is a most powerful tool, which allows for great complexity to be used to trigger a dump for a specific situation and can be used to check storage associated with an event and trigger a dump when that event is true. For this discussion we concentrate on the most common use of the SLIP, where it is set to trigger a dump when a specific message is written to the console. There are two forms of this SLIP command, as follows:

  • The first, being the old way, where we interrogate storage being used by the WTOR routine

  • The second, the later and more understandable version of the message SLIP

7.5.1. SLIP using IGC0003E

It is not necessary to set SLIP traps individually ...

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