I got a dataset violation for an invalid dataset and a mini dump. Why a mini dump?

Products

• ACF2
• ACF2 - DB2 Option
• ACF2 for zVM
• ACF2 - z/OS
• ACF2 - MISC
• PanApt
• PanAudit

Issue/Introduction

Question:

I got a dataset violation for an invalid dataset and a mini dump.  Why a mini dump?

 

Answer:

When ACF2 is passed an invalid dataset name that does not meet IBM's standards, ACF2 will give a violation to the user.  The problem usually, but not always is from a SAF call.  A mini dump is generated that will show the dataset and other information from the report in hexadecimal.  This is to help decipher the reason of the problem.  Many times we see the vendor or user padded the dataset name to 44 bytes using x'00' instead of space, or x'40'.  

Environment

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Component: ACF2MS

Resolution

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