PM Dump Facility Dump Formatter File Option

The File pull-down menu offers the following options:

Open Dump File

This option prompts you for the dump file name to be analyzed. You can also open a dump file by dragging it and dropping it onto the client window of the PM Dump Facility dump formatter. When you drop multiple copies of a dump onto the client window, the system opens only the first copy.

When you analyze a system dump or process dump, a command line will be shown at the bottom of the PM Dump Facility dump formatter display. You can use the formatter commands as a fast way to find specific data. Refer to the PMDF document in the Troubleshooting folder for a list of system dump and process dump commands.

When the dump file is first opened, only limited data will appear. Use the Analyze option to access the remaining dump data.

Log Output
This option prompts you to start or stop logging output to a file. Log data may be appended to an existing log file.
Save Output
This option allows you to save all output displayed in the PMDF scrollable window.
Decompress Dump File
Select this option to decompress a new dump.

Note: For diskette dumps the DUMPDATA.nnn files may be copied for a directory on the hard drive and decompressed from there.

PMDF has the ability to decompress diskette images created by OS2IMAGE without re-creating the original diskettes. To use this facility each of the image file must be named image.nnn where nnn is a numeric sequence number that corresponds to the disk number.

Connect
Connect allows PMDF to be used as a terminal emulator to drive a Kernel Debugger session.
Disconnect
Disconnect terminated the communications session with the Kernel Debugger.

The Log Output... option displays a window that allows the logging of formatted dump data to a file. When you turn on logging, the system records all dump information formatted during this session in the log file you specified. The system also displays the formatted dump information at the same time. The system stores the data from the time that you started logging until you close the PM Dump Facility dump formatter. You also stop logging by using the Log Output... Stop push-button. If you open another dump file, logging continues.

When you select the Save Output... option, the system displays a standard OS/2 Save As... window. Specify the file name for the saved data. The system will save all formatted dump output that was generated since the file was opened or since the last clear screen was done. The system saves this "snap-shot" of dump data only when requested using this option. The system does not save the data simultaneously like it does with the Log Output... option.

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