Analyzing a disabled loop

A disabled loop is not visible in the system trace output because disabled routines do not take interrupts. Normally, a disabled loop results in a spin loop in a multiprocessor environment. When analyzing a stand-alone dump for a disabled loop, use the stored status data to determine the module involved in the loop. Also, examine the in-storage logrec buffer for entries that recovery routines have made but which were not written to the logrec data set because of a system problem. Very often it is these records that are the key to the problem solution. See Obtaining information from the logrec recording control buffer for more information.