> FWIW, I have a feeling that many (most?) customers don't analyze SVC > dumps often if ever; they have no opinion one way or the other about the > necessity of RGN. :( IBM or an ISV will likely provide an SDATA= string > for any dump they request, so the defaults really don't matter to them...
Yes, and every support person within IBM has learned to copy an sdata string that contains ALLNUC, usually for problems that have nothing whatsoever to do with nucleus modules, unnecessarily increasing the time it takes to write the dump and the dump size itself. I had learned to ignore any SDATA setting that IBM gave out and instead use my own settings (that do not include ALLNUC). And it was usually me that pointed out to IBM that yes, the data *are* in the dump (when IBM support told me that the dump wasn't worth anything because 'data are not in the dump'). So every sysprog should have enough dump reading skills to at least ascertain when someone is giving them bullsh.. (Now I dream on.) Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
