AMATERSE is an application that prepares diagnostic materials,
such as z/OS® dumps and traces,
for transmission to IBM® and
independent software vendor sites. When the materials arrive, AMATERSE
also provides a means to create similar data sets to support diagnosis
of problems.
If you have previously used the TRSMAIN utility (see
http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/390/trsmain.html),
note the following changes made to prepare AMATERSE for formal inclusion
in z/OS:
- Use AMATERSE as the preferred application program name rather
than TRSMAIN. TRSMAIN ships as an alias entry point to AMATERSE.
- Use the replacements for the DDNAMES, which are SYSUT1 and SYSUT2
. When the TRSMAIN entry point of AMATERSE is invoked, DDNAMES INFILE
and OUTFILE remain as the defaults.
- AMATERSE is in MIGLIB, a library that is part of the link list.
No STEPLIB DDNAME is necessary to invoke AMATERSE.
- In nearly all cases, you can use AMATERSE, the TRSMAIN utility,
and VM terse interchangeably. See Restrictions for AMATERSE for
the exceptions to this rule.