Best practices for large stand-alone dump

This information describes a set of best practices for optimizing stand-alone dump (SADMP) data capture, optimizing problem analysis time, and ensuring that the stand-alone dump is successful at capturing the necessary information for use by IBM® Support. In particular, the following areas:

• Using AutoIPL for stand-alone dumps
• Planning a multivolume stand-alone dump data set
• Creating the multivolume SADUMP
• Defining a dump directory for large stand-alone and SVC dumps
• Preparing the dump for further processing with IPCS COPYDUMP
• Compressing data for faster transmission and analysis
• Transmitting dump data to IBM
• Setting up remote access
• Testing your stand-alone dump operations
• Automating the SADMP process, which includes Sample JCL for post-processing
• IBM System Test example

This information replaces existing stand-alone dump best practices information previously documented in:

• "z/OS® Best Practices: Large stand-alone dump handling," found by searching for TD103286 at Techdocs www.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/Web/Technotes.
• "Every picture tells a story: Best practices for stand-alone dump, " published in the February 2007 issue of the z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter. You can access current issues of z/OS Hot Topics Newsletter at www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/hot_topics.html.