Capturing data in the event of problems

Describes the facilities available for data capture in the event of problems occurring. It provides full details of the Data capture utility and the provisions for first failure data capture.

In the event of any problems occurring while you are using IBM Workload Scheduler, you might be asked by the IBM® Customer Support to supply information about your system that might throw a light on why the problem occurred. The following utilities are available:
  • A general data capture utility command that extracts information about IBM Workload Scheduler and related workstations, system-specific information, and data related to WebSphere Application Server Liberty Base; see Data capture utility.
  • A first failure data capture (ffdc) facility built into batchman and mailman that automatically runs the data capture utility when failures occur in jobman, mailman, or batchman; see First failure data capture (ffdc).
  • WebSphere Application Server Liberty Base javadump command to create the heap dump for WebSphere Application Server Liberty Base that runs on the Dynamic Workload Console and the master domain manager; see Creating application server dumps.