Copying, viewing, and printing stand-alone dump output

When stand-alone dump processing completes the dump, the output resides on a tape volume, a DASD, or a combination of devices. The easiest way to view the dump is to copy the dump to a DASD data set. When a stand-alone dump resides on multiple devices and/or dump data sets, you can concatenate the dump into one data set. After the dump is available on DASD, it can be viewed online using IPCS.

Note: If the dump resides in a DASD dump data set, IBM® recommends that you copy the dump to another data set for IPCS processing and clear (reinitialize) the dump data set using the AMDSADDD or IPCS SADMP dump data set utilities. For more information, see Using the AMDSADDD utility and Utility option on the IPCS Dialog in z/OS MVS IPCS User's Guide.