Setting Z Abend Investigator SLIP traps

As documentation for certain situations where Z Abend Investigator issues an error message, an MVS™ dump is often required by HCL Support.

In most cases, Z Abend Investigator automatically writes a Recovery Fault Recording (RFR) dump, which serves two purposes:

• To enable reanalysis of the RFR fault entry, effectively making it transparent to the user that an error has occurred.
• To provide HCL Support with information about the error, if suspected of being a Z Abend Investigator defect.

If such RFR dumps are being written (which requires the Z Abend Investigator HFZS subsystem to be started and the HFZXTSEL exit installed - see Recovery fault recording for more information), then there is generally no need to set SLIP traps for message IDs other than those marked with '*' below.

The following shows a sample SLIP trap to capture an SVC dump in case a particular Z Abend Investigator message is issued:

SL SET,ID=xxxx,MSGID=zzzzzzzz,ACTION=SVCD,END

where xxxx is a unique SLIP trap identifier (for example, F047) zzzzzzzz is the message ID.

Refer to "MVS™ System Commands" for the complete syntax of the SLIP command and for additional parameters that might be considered, such as MATCHLIM.

SLIP traps for the following message IDs should be considered:

HFZ0047S
HFZ0092S
HFZ0105S
HFZ0123S *
HFZ0144E *
HFZ0168E *

* These message IDs are not subject to Recovery Fault Recording (RFR) processing and MVS™ dumps are therefore never written automatically by Z Abend Investigator for these.