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Tuesday Tip: Suppress CA Symdump Batch dump capture

  • 1.  Tuesday Tip: Suppress CA Symdump Batch dump capture

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 27, 2014 05:25 PM

    CA SymDump Batch is initialized at IPL time and remains dormant until a dump is requested as the result of an abend. CA Symdump Batch then gets invoked by the operating system dump SVC and reports on every abend generating a CA SymDump Batch abend report.

    CA SymDump Batch by default suppresses the standard IBM system dump. Sometimes a system dump is required to ship to IBM or a vendor for diagnostic purposes. To suppress the CA Symdump batch dump capture add the CAOESTOP DD JCL  statement to the abending job step.

    //CAOESTOP DD DUMMY