Preparing to use the IPCS tools

The interactive problem control system (IPCS) provides MVS™ users with an interactive facility for diagnosing software failures. You can use IPCS to format and analyze SDUMPs produced by CICSPlex® SM or stand-alone dumps obtained while CICSPlex SM was active in the system being dumped. You can either view the dumps at your terminal or print them.

Note:
The CICSPlex SM IPCS tools are available only for CASs, CMASs, or MASs running in an MVS image.

CICSPlex SM provides two types of IPCS tools:

For more information about:

Before you can use the CICSPlex SM IPCS tools, you must make the preparations described in:

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