Re: Storage dump

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

if it was an MSD (main storage dump) I doubt you can work with it - 
send it to IBM for them to figure out what they can. But even then I 
don't think it will be easy or even possible to determine what was 
using up disk, because that is a snapshot of machine memory.

I can't recommend strongly enough a product called disk/HUNTER from 
Centerfield Technology www.centerfieldtechnology.com - it would have 
detected the excess usage long before you had this problem and would 
have sent messages to that effect. It would have even told you what 
probable causes were, including jobs and users. And because of the 
messages, a monitor like Bytware Messenger-Plus or Robot/console 
could have maybe done something - one can't anticipate everything, 
but that's up to you. At any rate, there would have been reports and 
messages and a log of what happened that could help analyze things.

I do not work for them - used to - wrote most of this product while 
there. So this is not a vendor response - check out the site and get 
some insurance before the next time.

HTH
Vern

At 07:08 AM 5/2/2006, you wrote:

> Something caused our system to chew up all of our DASD last night thereby
> freezing our nightly processing and we were unable to IPL. We got IBM on the
> phone and they walked us through doing a storage dump to tape and then
> getting the system (810 on 5.2) to IPL. My question is, how do I read this
> tape so that I can make some sense of what I am looking at in order to debug
> what might have caused the problem. Any help would be appreciated
>
>
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