Analyzing and reducing dump data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9037815-B2
Application number	US-201213536655-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 28, 2012
Priority date	Jun 28, 2012
Publication date	May 19, 2015
Grant date	May 19, 2015

Abstract

For analyzing and reducing dump data, an analysis module identifies each abending task of a job and identifies each stack block of each abending task. A dump module saves only stack block data from the identified stack blocks as dump data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
a computer readable storage medium storing computer readable program code executable by a processor, the computer readable program code comprising:
an analysis module identifying each abending task of a job comprising a job address space, identifying each stack block of each abending task within the job address space, each stack block comprising a request block comprising a register copy that is copy of job registers when the request block was created, identifying a module for each stack block that performs a function for the stack block and has a module address range outside of the job address space, and calculating the module address range for the module using a virtual local storage map indexed by a corresponding stack block; and
a dump module saving only stack block data from the identified stack blocks within the job address space and data from the module address range to dump data.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein identifying the abending task comprises examining a task control block for a specified completion code.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein identifying each stack block comprises calculating a stack block address range and each stack block comprises a program status word copy that is a copy of a program status word when the request block was created.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , the analysis module further identifying a diagnostic storage address range for each stack block and appending diagnostic storage address range data to the dump data.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , the analysis module further identifying a used storage address range for each stack block and appending used storage address range data to the dump data.

6. A method for analyzing and reducing dump data comprising:
identifying, by use of a processor, each abending task of a job comprising a job address space;
identifying each stack block of each abending task within the job address space, each stack block comprising a request block comprising a register copy that is copy of job registers when the request block was created;
identifying a module for each stack block that performs a function for the stack block and has a module address range outside of the job address space;
calculating the module address range for the module using a virtual local storage map indexed by a corresponding stack block; and
saving only stack block data from the identified stack blocks within the job address space and data from the module address range to dump data.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the abending task comprises examining a task control block for a specified completion code.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein identifying each stack block comprises calculating a stack block address range and each stack block comprises a program status word copy that is a copy of a program status word when the request block was created.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein a Z/OS® file system comprises the stack block address range.

10. The method of claim 6 , further comprising identifying a diagnostic storage address range for each stack block and appending diagnostic storage address range data to the dump data.

11. The method of claim 6 , further comprising identifying a used storage address range for each stack block and appending used storage address range data to the dump data.

12. The method of claim 6 , wherein the stack block is selected from the group consisting of a request block and a linkage stack entry.

13. A computer program product for analyzing and reducing dump data, the computer program product comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code configured to:
identify each abending task of a job comprising a job address space;
identify each stack block of each abending task within the job address space, each stack block comprising a request block comprising a register copy that is copy of job registers when the request block was created;
identify a module for each stack block that performs a function for the stack block and has a module address range outside of the job address space;
calculate the module address range for the module using a virtual local storage map indexed by a corresponding stack block; and
save only stack block data from the identified stack blocks within the job address space and data from the module address range to dump data.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein identifying the abending task comprises examining a task control block for a specified completion code.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 , wherein identifying each stack block comprises calculating a stack block address range and each stack block comprises a program status word copy that is a copy of a program status word when the request block was created.

16. The computer program product of claim 13 , the computer readable program code further identifying a diagnostic storage address range for each stack block and appending diagnostic storage address range data to the dump data.

17. The computer program product of claim 13 , the computer readable program code further identifying a used storage address range for each stack block and appending used storage address range data to the dump data.

Assignees

• Helak Dustin A
• Perez Miguel A
• Reed David C
• Smith Max D
• IBM

Inventors

• Helak Dustin A
• Perez Miguel A
• Reed David C
• Smith Max D

Classifications

• G06F11/0715

  in a system implementing multitasking (multitasking per se G06F9/46) · CPC title

• G06F9/00 Primary

  Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units (program control for peripheral devices G06F13/10) · CPC title

• G06F9/461

  Saving or restoring of program or task context · CPC title

• G06F11/0778 Primary

  Dumping, i.e. gathering error/state information after a fault for later diagnosis · CPC title