On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:04:01 -0700, Longnecker, Dennis wrote: >Can someone point me to the right place to find the documentation on how to >create large SVCDUMP datasets? I need to create a large dump dataset so I >can take a console dump of DB2. I keep getting partial dumps. I see in the >messages the maximum size of a dataset is 65,535 tracks which for a 3390 is >4369 cylinders. In the z/OS MVS diagnosis: Tools and Service Aids manual >they say "IBM Recommends using extended format sequential data sets as dump >data sets for SVC dumps......and they can hold 128 gigabytes". But the >manual doesn't give any clues on how to create them. >
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2D490/3.6.10.2 DSNTYPE=LARGE is allowed for SVC Dump (z/OS 1.7 or later) http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2V1B0/2.1.3 http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2D490/3.6.11 Norbert Friemel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html