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Captures data pertaining to a particular DTC and writes it to a disk file.

Security level: 1.

Syntax

DT[C] dtcnum

Parameter

dtcnum

The number TermDSM associated with a particular DTC. The DTC command lists each DTC with its assigned number. This list is also printed when you make a mistake while typing in a DTC number.

CAUTION: This subcommand resets all sessions on the DTC under test.

Description

When this subcommand is entered, the following message will be printed on the terminal:

     Warning: This will reset all users on that DTC. (TDSM 44)
Do you want to continue (yes or no)?

If you respond no, the DUMP prompt will be repeated for you to enter another DUMP subcommand. If you respond yes, the dump continues after the following message:

     The DTC dump can take as long as 7 minutes ..... 

After the dump, a selftest is done on the DTC and status on each card is displayed.

The DTC dump information is placed in two files. The first file contains information about the part of the DTS software that resides on the host (the HP 3000). When the dump of this information is complete, the following information will be displayed:

     The following two files make up the DTC dump. Please
deliver both to your HP representative: (TDSM 64)
     Shhhhhhc.PUB.SYS     TRMdddll.PUB.SYS

where hhhhhh is the last six hexadecimal digits of the DTC's LAN address and c is a character in the range from A to Z. The ddd is the Julian day of the year and ll is a two-character string in the range:

     AA, AB, AC, ..., BA, BB, BC, ..., ZZ 

This numbering system allows you to create many dump files in one day and to later know on what day each dump was created by simply looking at the file name.

If you need to send dump information to HP to have it analyzed, make sure that you send both dump files.

NOTE: If all 26 (suffix A through Z) DTC dump files already exist, one will be overwritten by the current DTC dump. If you are doing a lot of DTC dumps, you may wish to store off or rename some dump files to preserve them.
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