The interactive problem control system (IPCS) provides MVS™ installations with an interactive facility for diagnosing software failures. MVS SDUMPs can be produced by CICS® or by entering the MVS DUMP command. You can use IPCS to format and analyze these SDUMPs or to analyze stand-alone dumps obtained when CICS was active in the system being dumped. You can view the dumps at your terminal or you can print them.
The IPCS dump analysis subcommands enable you to:
To enable you to analyze CICS SDUMPs written to dump data sets by the SDUMP macro, you can use the IPCS VERBEXIT subcommand to execute a CICS-supplied IPCS dump exit. This dump exit enables you to:
For further information about IPCS, see the z/OS MVS IPCS User’s Guide.