Contents of summary dumps in transaction dumps

When you request a summary dump, the SUM parameter requests many useful, predefined areas with one parameter.

Summary dump does not contain volatile system information. The system writes the summary dump before it returns control to the dump requester; the summary information is saved for each address space that is being dumped.

The Summary Dump contains:
  1. ASID record for the address space of the dump task
  2. Control blocks for the recovery termination manager (RTM):
    • RTM2WA associated with all TCBs in the dumped address space
  3. Dump header, which is mapped by AMDDATA.

    For the AMDDATA mapping, see z/OS® MVS™ Data Areas in z/OS Internet library.

  4. 4 kb before and 4 kb after:
    • All valid unique addresses in the PSWs in the RTM2WAs shown in the dump
    • All valid unique addresses in the registers in the RTM2WAs shown in the dump
  5. Supervisor control blocks:
    • Current linkage stack
    • Primary address space number (PASN) access list
    • Work unit access list

For information about control blocks that are listed in Table 1, see z/OS MVS Data Areas in z/OS Internet library.