On 22 April 2014 19:01, Mark Yuhas <mark.yu...@paccar.com> wrote:
> Bear with me.  I have an old program that copies a SVC Dump to regular data 
> set with a non-system DSN.  It has been working for many years.  I need to 
> make a few changes for the current configuration of z/OS 1.13.  IPCS accepts 
> the system dump data set but rejects the one-off data set saying there is no 
> directory record.  I added the dump record via the IPCS ADDDUMP command.  
> Now, IPCS accepts the dump but when I try to analyze it via IPCS commands, it 
> states that information is missing.
>
> I performed an ISPF compare of the data sets.  According to that test, the 
> data sets are the same.  I'm stumped.  Is there something new about copying 
> dump data sets in 1.13?

Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> responded
>Is your output RECFM=FBS,LRECL=4160? If it's (say) FB or has the wrong
LRECL, IPCS will treat it as a trace or other non-dump dataset, and
produce confusing messages.

>Tony H.

Thanks for the insight.  I converted to FBS and all is well.


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