Diagnosing abends with the IMS dump

If an interrupt or abend occurs in IMS™, you can use the IMS dump (which contains the information that is available at the time of the program interrupt or abend) for diagnosis. You can also use the Language Environment dump (CEEDUMP) for diagnosis.

If the interrupt or abend occurs in your application (outside of IMS), the IMS dump shows the state of the system after Language Environment gained control, did some cleanup of the environment, and requested the abend. In this case, you can use only the Language Environment dump (CEEDUMP) for diagnosis.