Here is an example of a job that uses an in-stream user-options
file to override any dump suppression if program MYAPPL abends: Figure 1. Sample job specifying user-options file
//MYJOB1 JOB ...
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=MYAPPL
//SYSMDUMP DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MY.DUMP.DATA.SET
//IDIOPTS DD *
RetainDump(ALL) /* do not suppress the dump if MYAPPL
abends */
/*
The user options file must be fixed 80-byte record length format
and all options must be specified within columns 1 - 71.
Note: If a user options file is found through the _IDI_OPTSFILE environment variable (see The _IDI_OPTSFILE environment variable), then no attempt is made to read options through the IDIOPTS DDname.