16.2. VTAM IPCS dump formatting

A VTAM full dump, often referred to as an SVC dump, needs to be formatted using IPCS and the supplied VTAM formatting utilities. These include IPCS VERBEXIT functions and also some specific IPCS CLIST routines that are also invoked from the IPCS sub-command entry panel and allow you to interrogate the VTAM control block structures and the VTAM Internal Trace data.

The IPCS VTAM CLIST routine, ISTVDUMP shows the SDATA options that were in effect when the dump was taken, as shown in Figure 16-2.

Figure 16-2. IPCS ISTVDUMP
CLIST ISTVDUMP STARTED AT 09:02:03. SDATA OPTIONS REQUESTED FOR THIS DUMP: SDUALPSA - DUMP ALL PSA'S IN THE SYSTEM SDUSQA - DUMP SQA SDULSQA - DUMP LSQA SDURGN - DUMP REGION (PRIVATE AREA) SDULPA ...

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