How can I ensure I have the correct parmlib members for dumps?
The best way, in the FAQ writer’s opinion, is a MVS parmlib concatenation. The first library in the PARMLIB concatenation has all of the installation’s overrides to the IBM default members. There will be no IPCS parmlib members in this library. The second library is the distributed parmlib from IBM specific for that release. You avoid having to copy all of the members needed by dump processing for each release by always getting the correct members as the come from IBM. Steps to achieve this: • Add parmlib statements to your LOADxx member: * || VOLUME *—+—-1—-+—-2—-+—-3—-+—-4—-+—-5—-+—-6 PARMLIB SYS1.PARMLIB *MCAT* PARMLIB SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB ****** • IPL and then ensure that the concatenation is in use: D PARMLIB IEE251I 09.11.01 PARMLIB DISPLAY 003 PARMLIB DATA SETS SPECIFIED AT IPL ENTRY FLAGS VOLUME DATA SET 1 S MCAT01 SYS1.PARMLIB 2 S ZOSAR1 SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB • Rather than delete them, I prefer a 3.3 move of the dump processing members out of the first parmlib d
