The following major diagnostic aids are provided for the Storage
Management Subsystem (SMS):
- The SETSMS VOLSELMSG command, for performing problem diagnosis
on volume selection.
- A procedure to isolate the source of an SMS message-indicated
failure to an area either within SMS or elsewhere, in a non-DFSMS
component
- A description of the SMS IPCS dump formatting verb exit (SMSDATA)
and examples of SMSDATA usage
- Information about the use of the SMS trace facility
- A description of the trace facility for use with modules that
manipulate UNIX files and IPCS
formatting with SMSXDATA
- A sample SMS SUMDUMP showing the intermodule communications area
(IMC), the recovery communications area (ERRCA), and a partial SMS
procedure trace table (ERPTT)
- SMS subcomponent return code and reason code tables