Obtaining a dump file

Note: This section applies only to OS/2.

The end user who is experiencing the unanticipated exception or trap must load the application under the dump collector utility, @ITRAPPER;. When the program fails, @ITRAPPER; creates a dump file. If the failure is recoverable (for example, some OS/2 exceptions), @ITRAPPER; lets the program continue running, and subsequent failures result in new dump files being created. For unrecoverable exceptions and for traps, @ITRAPPER; terminates the application after creating the dump file.

You need to ship the @ITRAPPER; utility with your program. This utility is part of the OS/2 version of the product. If you want to change @ITRAPPER;'s default parameters, you also need to provide a parameter file.


Postmortem debugging overview

Related Tasks
Debugging dump files
Starting @ITRAPPER;