Messages and service system values: Service log for unmonitored escape messages

The Service log for unmonitored escape messages system value is also known as QSRVDMP. You can use this system value to specify whether to create a service log (also known as service dump) for unmonitored escape messages.

Quick reference
Location From IBM® Navigator for i, select Configuration and Service > System Values. Right-click on Messages and Service and click Properties, then select the Problems tab.
Special authority None.
Default value Selected. Include user jobs.
Changes take effect Immediately.
Lockable No.

What can I do with this system value?

You can specify whether to create service logs for unmonitored escape messages.

You have the following options:

  • Deselect (*NONE). Do not create service logs for unmonitored escape messages.
  • Include user jobs (*DMPUSRJOB).
  • Include system jobs (*DMPSYSJOB).
  • Include both user jobs and systems jobs (*DMPALLJOB).

If you produce and keep service logs for unusual failures, including unmonitored escape messages, IBM can better help you when you try to diagnose the problem when an unusual failure occurs. These are examples of system jobs:

  • System arbiter
  • Subsystem monitors
  • Logical unit (LU) services
  • Spool readers and writers
  • Start-control-program-function (SCPF) job