Procedure B: Restart stand-alone dump

A system restart does not always work, either because it occurs at a point when stand-alone dump internal resources are not serialized, or because stand-alone dump has been too heavily damaged to function. If the restart does not work, try procedure C (reIPL).

If a dump to a DASD data set is truncated because there is not enough space on the data set to hold the dump, use a system restart to dump the original data to tape. By causing a system restart, you can reinitialize and restart a failing stand-alone dump program without losing the original data you wanted to dump.

If a permanent error occurs on the output device, the stand-alone dump program will prompt the operator to determine if a restart of the stand-alone dump program should be performed. If the operator indicates that a restart of the stand-alone dump program should be performed, then the stand-alone dump program restarts the dump using the same console and prompts the operator to specify a different output device. Continue procedure A at step 6A; see Procedure A: Initialize and run stand-alone dump.

For other types of stand-alone dump errors and wait states, it might be necessary for the operator to perform a manual restart of the stand-alone dump program. In this case, the operator should perform the following steps:
  1. Perform a system restart on the processor that you IPLed stand-alone dump from.
  2. If the restart is successful, stand-alone dump dumps central storage. If stand-alone dump abnormally ends while dumping central storage, try to restart stand-alone dump. If the restart succeeds, stand-alone dump reruns the entire dump. It will first enter wait state X'3E0000' to allow you to specify a new console and output device. You can do this to recover from an I/O error on the output device. Stand-alone dump recognizes any console in the console list and starts with the same output device defaults that are used at the IPL of stand-alone dump.
  3. Continue procedure A at step 3, see Procedure A: Initialize and run stand-alone dump.
Parent topic: Running the stand-alone dump program