TACL Reference Manual

UTILS:TACL Commands and Functions

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POSTDUMP Utility

The POSTDUMP utility enables explicit postdump processing of an existing full dump

file to produce an extracted dump file. It is provided for processing an existing full

dump produced by either the TNet dump method or the PARALLEL dump method. You

can use the FULL option of RCVDUMP to do a full dump, reload the halted processor,

and then explicitly run the POSTDUMP utility to create an extracted dump so that the

processor can be reloaded slightly sooner by skipping the implicit postdump

processing step.

The POSTDUMP utility does not need to be licensed because it is allowed to run under

any user ID.

is the name of an existing dump file used for input.

The format of options is:

OUT <out file>, [+]PIN { ALL | <pin list> },

ALL_PAGES, [-]DP2_CACHE, [-]DP2_SHARED,

[-]IMPLICIT_DLLS, [-]LOCKED, [-]OTHER,

[-]SYS_LIBRARY, [-]SYS_PROCESS, [-]SYSTEM

OUT <out file>

specifies the name of the extracted dump file to be created. The default

value is <in file> name suffixed with 'P', removing the third character, if

necessary, to fit the resulting name within eight characters.

[+]PIN { ALL | <pin list> }

specifies the sponsor pin(s) for which all (except free) pages are to be

included in the extracted dump. Default is processes related to the

processor halt.

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+ indicates that the specified pins are additional.

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ALL indicates all (valid) pins.

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<pin list> is a decimal number or is one or more decimal numbers,

comma or space separated within parentheses.

ALL_PAGES

includes all (except free) pages for all (valid) pins.

POSTDUMP <in file> [ < options > ]