7.8. Stand-alone dumps
Stand-alone dumps are not produced by z/OS, but by a program called SADMP that is IPLed in place of z/OS.
These dumps show central storage and some paged-out virtual storage occupied by the system or stand-alone dump program that failed. Stand-alone dumps can be analyzed using IPCS.
The term stand-alone means that the dump is performed separately from normal system operations and does not require the system to be in a condition for normal operation.
7.8.1. Allocating the stand-alone dump data set
In the SYS1.SAMPLIB data set use the AMDSADDD REXX utility to allocate and initialize the SADMP dump data sets. You can EXEC this REXX utility from the ISPF data set utility option 3.4, and either VIEW (V), BROWSE (B) or EDIT ...
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