Verifying the recovery fault recording setup

To verify the setup of recovery fault recording, insert a JCL statement like the following into the abending step of any of the other IVP jobs, for example, the IDIVPCOB IVP job (see Verifying the use of Fault Analyzer with COBOL):

//GO.IDIRFRON DD DUMMY

When the IDIRFRON ddname is allocated to the abending step being analyzed by Fault Analyzer, then a deliberate abend U0777 is issued. This abend activates the recovery fault recording feature to write a TDUMP or SDUMP depending on the setup described in Recovery fault recording, and a recovery fault recording fault entry.

Before submitting the job, ensure that the IDIS subsystem is started.

Messages similar to the following should be displayed:


+IDI0001I Fault Analyzer V14R1M9 (PH15623  2019/11/22) invoked by IDIXCEE using SYS1.PARMLIB.F1.USER(IDICNF00)
+IDI0157I Fault Analyzer about to deliberately abend U0777 and take RFR dump due to IDIRFRON DDname
+IDI0047S IBM Fault Analyzer internal abend. U0777
+IDI0126I Recovery fault recording fault ID BAT15874 assigned in history file DA.DCAT
IGD101I SMS ALLOCATED TO DDNAME (SYS00038)  524
        DSN (IDIRFRHQ.TDUMP.F1.D181215.T013821.S00072)
        STORCLAS (SCIDIRFR) MGMTCLAS (PRIMARY) DATACLAS (DEFAULT)
        VOL SER NOS= E$RF01
IGD104I IDIRFRHQ.TDUMP.F1.D181215.T013821.S00072 RETAINED,  DDNAME=SYS00038
IEA822I COMPLETE TRANSACTION DUMP WRITTEN TO IDIRFRHQ.TDUMP.F1.D181215.T013821.S00072

Reanalysis of the recovery fault recording fault entry identified in message IDI0126I should result in a report, which is almost identical to the one from the same IVP run without the IDIRFRON DD statement.