Customize Z Abend Investigator by using an HFZOPTLM configuration-options module

Some aspects of the Z Abend Investigator customization can only be performed via SMP/E USERMODs (for details, see Customize Z Abend Investigator by using USERMODs), while others must be performed by using an HFZOPTLM configuration-options module.

An HFZOPTLM configuration-options module must consist of the following data area in a load module format.

Table 1. HFZOPTLM data area
Offsets Type Len Name Description
Dec Hex
0 (0) CHAR 44 LEDSN Deprecated
44 (2C) CHAR 44 CNFDSN See Specifying an alternative parmlib data set for HFZCNFxx (CNFDSN).
88 (58) CHAR 100 RFRDSN See Changing the default recovery fault recording IEATDUMP data set name (RFRDSN).
188 (BC) BIN 4 CICSNOA See Changing the action of Z Abend Investigator when invoked via the CICS XDUREQ global user exit (CICSNOA).
192 (C0) CHAR 44 SSCHKDSN See Specifying an alternative security server test data set name (SSCHKDSN).
236 (EC) CHAR 100 XDUMPDSN See Changing the default extended minidump (XDUMP) data set name pattern (XDUMPDSN).
336 (150) CHAR 100 SDUMPDSN See Specifying the copied SDUMP data set name pattern (SDUMPDSN).
436 (1B4) BIN 4 Reserved. Must be all binary zeroes.
440 (1B8) BIN 1 PREVEXIT See Suppressing HFZXDCAP real-time analysis if prior exit RC=8 (PREVEXIT).
441 (1B9) BIN 15 Reserved. Must be all binary zeroes.

To specify any of these settings, edit and submit a job to create an HFZOPTLM configuration-options load module. A sample job is provided as member HFZOPTLM in data set HFZ.SHFZSAM1. Options in the HFZOPTLM load module are read whenever normal options processing is performed.

The configuration-options load module must be named HFZOPTLM and it must be placed in HFZ.SHFZAUTH or another APF-authorized library. The library should also be in LNKLST so that the HFZOPTLM load module can be found by all jobs.