Analyzing an SVC dump

This section shows you how to use IPCS to analyze an SVC dump. You would analyze an SVC dump because of one of the following:

• Dump output from the IPCS STATUS FAILDATA subcommand did not contain data for the abend being diagnosed.
• The problem involved multiple abends.
• The dump was taken but does not contain abend-related information.

This section contains the following topics, which, if followed in order, represent the procedure for analyzing an SVC dump:

• Formatting the SVC dump header
• Looking at the dump title
• Displaying the incident token, time and type of dump
• Locating error information
• Analyze TCB structure
• Examining the LOGREC buffer
• Examining the system trace
• Looking at the registers
• Other useful reports for SVC dump analysis
• Reading the SDUMPX 4K SQA buffer