Interactive Program Control System (IPCS) is a powerful diagnostic tool in the MVS™ system that aids the diagnosis of software failures. IPCS provides formatting and analysis support for dumps and traces produced by MVS, other program products, and applications that run on MVS.
Dumps (SVC dump, stand-alone dump, SYSMDUMP) and traces (system trace, GTF trace, and CTRACE) need to be formatted before analysis can begin. IPCS provides the tools to format dumps and traces in both an online and batch environment. IPCS provides you with commands that will let you interrogate specific components of the operating system and allow you to review storage locations associated with an individual task or control block. IPCS allows you to quickly review and isolate key information that will assist with your problem determination process.
Using dump and trace data sets and, in some cases, active storage as a source IPCS analyzes information and produces reports that can be viewed at a Time Sharing Option Extensions (TSO/E) terminal or can be printed.
Related information: For complete information about IPCS, see these procedures and documents: