Option 4 — INVENTORY

The IPCS Inventory panel, Figure 1, helps you review and manage the sources described by a dump directory. Invoke this panel by selecting option 4 (INVENTORY) from the IPCS Primary Option Menu panel.

Figure 1. IPCS Inventory Panel

 IPCS Inventory - 'USER1.DDIR' ------------------------------------------------
 COMMAND ===>                                                  SCROLL ===> CSR

 AC Dump Source                                                       Status
 ______________________________________________________________________________
 __ ACTIVE                                                            CLOSED
 No title
 No symptoms
 __ DDNAME(ISPROF)                                                    CLOSED
 No title
 No symptoms
 __ DSNAME('D83DUMP.SYS1.INF0025.IOSVSLFD')  . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADDED
 Title=COMPON=IOS-SELF DESCRIPTION SERVICE,COMPID=SC1C3,ISSUER=IOSVSLFD
 Psym=RIDS/NUCLEUS#L RIDS/IOSVSLFD PIDS/5752SC1C3 AB/S00C1 RIDS/IOSVSLFD#R REGS/
 __ DSNAME('USER1.GTF.TRACE') . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CLOSED
 Title=GTF trace
 No symptoms - not an MVS/SP unformatted dump
 __ DSNAME('USER1.SYS3.DUMP.S0C4')  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CLOSED
 Title=JOBNAME USER1    STEPNAME SMPROC  SMPROC  SYSTEM 0C4
 Psym=RIDS/BLSG#L AB/S00C4 VALU/HD08C4170 REGS/0C374 PRCS/00000004
 *************************** END OF IPCS INVENTORY *****************************

All IPCS users can review and manage their user dump directory with this panel. If you are authorized, you can use this panel to review and manage the sysplex dump directory.

The status of a source can be:

ADDED: The source description was added by ADDDUMP processing to your user dump directory. This status indicates that IPCS must initialize the source before you can format it.
CLOSED: The source is not currently being used.
OPEN: The source is currently being used.

The first line under the data set ddname or name contains the dump title, or an indication that there is no dump title. The second line contains, if available, as much of the symptom string as will fit on the line. The type of symptom string is indicated to the left of the string, as shown in Table 1.

Table 1. Types of symptom strings
Type	Symbol in Symbol Table	Source of the Symptom String
Plex	REMOTEDUMP	If available, the information about the remote dump and the associated system name.
Trap	SLIPTRAP	If available, the text of the trap that requested the dump.
Psym	PRIMARYSYMPTOMS	The symptoms provided by the program that requested the SVC dump or SYSMDUMP dump.
Ssym	SECONDARYSYMPTOMS	The symptoms collected by IPCS while processing an SVC dump requested by a DUMP operator command or a stand-alone dump.

To use this panel, enter a 2-character command code in the AC column on the left. These command codes let you request actions directly from this panel. For more information, see z/OS MVS IPCS Commands.

BR: storage
CL: Close the source
DD: Delete the source description
DT: Delete the translation records from the source description
LA: List the source description with storage attributes
LB: List the source description with record locations
LD: List the source description with a dumped storage summary
LT: List the source description with translation results
LZ: List the source description with information from all list codes
OP: Open a source
SD: Establish this source as the current source in your local defaults
XP: Export dump description to RECFM = VB data set

You can scroll through the sources using the UP, DOWN, and LOCATE primary commands. You can also use PLEX primary command to display only the dumps related to multi-system incident.