StorageTek 6 manual Common Dump Analysis Tasks, Find a Module Plus Offset, Given an Address

2. Enter:

DPSW

3.PSW is BC mode if Bit 12 is 0 (high bit in the fourth nibble). If PSW is BC mode, then enter:

VMDUMP 0.END FORMAT CMS * comments

else enter:

VMDUMP 0.END FORMAT SLK 0 comments

b.Enabled Waits:

These are difficult at best. Whatever failed to happen has already been obscured. Take a ‘‘FORMAT SLK’’ dump via PA1, or cancel the job that is hung up with ‘‘DUMP’’. Use the SLUIPCS PRINT command with the ‘‘COMM TASK PTTE IOS’’ options to see what was happening in each job/task when the system went into the wait. Check the SLUIPCS PRINT listing for devices with outstanding requests (Count field in DEURQST is not equal to 0).

Common Dump Analysis Tasks

Here are some common dump analysis tasks and the SLUIPCS SCAN subcommands to perform them.

Find a Module Plus Offset, Given an Address

WA address

Find a Module Address, Given a Name

WN name

View an HSC or SCP Data Area

VIEW data­area

Identify the Status at ABEND

STAT

Identify the ABEND Code

Look in the PRBxxxxx REPORT file

(or)

STAT

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