Writing symptom records to Logrec data set

Your application can build and write symptom records to the logrec data set one of two ways:

Through invoking the SYMRBLD macro services
By filling in fields of the ADSR mapping macro, then invoking SYMREC.

Using the SYMRBLD macro: SYMRBLD services use both the ADSR mapping macro and SYMREC, thus decreasing the amount of code your application requires to write symptom records. IBM® recommends that you use SYMRBLD rather than coding your application to use ADSR and SYMREC directly.

By invoking the SYMRBLD macro multiple times, you can generate code to build the symptom record. After storing all symptoms into the symptom record by using the SYMRBLD macro, invoke the SYMRBLD macro with the INVOKE=YES parameter one last time to write the data from the symptom record to the logrec data set.

For more information about SYMRBLD and SYMREC, see z/OS MVS Programming: Assembler Services Reference IAR-XCT.

Using EREP or IPCS: The Environmental Record Editing and Printing (EREP) program processes and presents software error records in the following reports:

Detail edit report for an abend
Detail edit report for a symptom record
System summary report
Event history report
Detail summary report

EREP User's Guide describes how to use EREP.

IPCS formats the software error records. You can use the IPCS VERBEXIT LOGDATA subcommand to format and print or view the logrec data set records in a dump. For more information about the subcommand, see z/OS MVS IPCS Commands.