OS/390 MVS IPCS User's Guid

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Place pointers associated with addresses of interest into the pointer stack on the
pointer panel.
View storage on a storage panel that is addressed by a requested pointer.
Format structures in storage referenced by pointers from the pointer panel.
Enter IPCS subcommands from anywhere in the Browse option.
Option 2 — ANALYSIS
See “Browsing a Dump Data Set” on page 48 for information on how to use the
entry, pointer, and storage panels of the IPCS Browse option to view a dump.
-------------------- IPCS MVS ANALYSIS OF DUMP CONTENTS ---------------------
OPTION ===> _
To display information, specify the corresponding option number.
1SYMPTOMS - Symptoms *****************
2STATUS - System environment summary * USERID - IPCSU1
3WORKSHEET - System environment worksheet * DATE - 95/06/08
4SUMMARY - Address spaces and tasks * JULIAN - 95.160
5CONTENTION - Resource contention * TIME - 16:44
6COMPONENT - MVS component data * PREFIX - IPCSU1
7TRACES - Trace formatting * TERMINAL- 3278
*PFKEYS-24
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Enter ENDcommandto terminate MVS dump analysis.
Figure 9. IPCS MVS Analysis of Dump Contents Panel
The IPCS MVS Analysis of Dump Contents panel ( Figure 9) displays a menu of
selected high-level dump analysis areas. Invoke this panel by selecting option 2
(ANALYSIS) from the IPCS Primary Option Menu panel.
Options 1 through 5 provide analysis reports. IPCS processes the requested option
for the current default dump source and displays a report that you can view in
full-screen mode on the dump display reporter panel.
Option 6 invokes the IPCS Dump Component Data Analysis panel ( Figure 10 on
page 31), where you can choose a component analysis report. Component analysis
is rarely appropriate until the analysis reports provided by options 1 through 5
indicate that a specific component might have incorrect data in its control block(s).
Option 7 invokes the Trace Processing panel ( Figure 11 on page 33), where you
can choose trace processing reports.
1 SYMPTOMS
Use the SYMPTOMS option to display symptoms collected by SDUMP, recovery
routines, and IPCS. The report may provide enough information to match the
incident against known problems when you (or the IBM Support Center) does a
search of problem data bases. The VERBEXIT SYMPTOMS subcommand
generates the same report as this option. See OS/390 MVS Diagnosis: Tools
and Service Aids for symptom examples and the OS/390 MVS Diagnosis:
Procedures for information on creating a search argument using these
symptoms.
2 STATUS
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