When an abend occurs, a dump is produced automatically and written to the SFFFDUMP and/or SYSABEND DD statement. For some abend codes it is not necessary to produce a dump, e.g. abend codes U910, SD37, SB37, and S913. When you use dump suppression, the following occurs:
The keyword below allows you to suppress the dumps for the specified abend codes. The general format is as follows:
DUMP_SUPPRESS=(dump_mask1,dump_mask2,...,dump_maskn)
Parameter dump_maskx contains the complete abend code, or a mask for a group of abend codes to be suppressed by the Beta system. No dump will be written to SFFFDUMP and/or to the SYSABEND DD statement for the abend codes specified here.
The syntax of the abend codes is as follows:
Sxxx |
contains the system abend code, xxx stands for the abend code (up to three digits) |
Uyyyy |
contains the user abend code, yyyy stands for the abend code (up to four digits) |
The dump_mask statement can contain ? (to signify any single character) or * (to signify a character string) as standard masking characters.
For example,
DUMP_SUPPRESS=(U910,S?37)
specifies that no dump will be written when abend code U910 and abend codes such as SD37, SB37 occur.