15. IMS diagnostic data collection

In this chapter we discuss the diagnostic data collection recommendations for IMS. This includes a discussion of the MVS requirements related to dumping and tracing the IMS address spaces.

This chapter describes the following:

  • IMS diagnostic data

  • IBM problem diagnosis

  • IMS and the master trace table

  • IMS DD statement and FMTO

  • IMS tracing

  • Dumping IMS address spaces

  • IMS diagnostic data collection

  • IMS dump formatting using IPCS

  • IMS dump data set sizes

  • IMS dump analysis

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