Abend dump

If the appropriate DD card exists, an abend dump is produced when one of the following conditions occurs:

The operator enters a CANCEL command.
An abend macroinstruction is issued.
A job abnormally ends.

To get an abend dump, the input stream for VTAM® must contain a DD statement with the ddname SYSUDUMP or SYSABEND. The resulting dump is written to the data set specified on the SYSUDUMP or SYSABEND DD card. The contents of the dump depend on user specifications. See Table 1 to determine what document has more information on the abend dump.