1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id: [60871]
a. Name of Feature: [5.6 FEAT] Intuitive dump device configuration workflow and dialogue
b. Feature Description
Distribution configuration tools need to provide a dialog to prepare I/O devices for dump, during
the installation and post-installation. The dialog needs to meet the following requirements: -
intuitive, i.e. follow the expectation of the user - guided, i.e. online help texts should be
available for each input field - undoable, i.e. customer should be able to correct mistakes.

Hello Red Hat,

please find detailed documentation and scripts in the following three attachments:
1st attachment: Distribution Installer Support for Linux on System z dump tools
2nd attachment: Example perl script showing mechanism to configure dump on DASD
3rd attachment: Example perl script showing mechanism to configure dump on SCSI

Maybe the section
<quote>
Clear the disk of fs labels, lvm formatting, mdadm formatting, etc. This is important to prevent the
disk from being automatically used for something other than as dump device.
Examples:
tune2fs -L '' /dev/dasdd1
pvremove /dev/dasdd1
mdadm --zero-superblock
</quote>
after setting the dump device online and before preparing the device for dumps in
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-9768 might also be helpful to prevent known issues. Otherwise
attachment 42258 [details] should take precedence.

Further details can be found in:
"Using the Dump Tools - SC33-8290-02" and if necessary also in the sections on fdasd and zipl of
"Device Drivers, Features, and Commands - SC33-8289-04" on
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/october2005_documentation.html
Distribution Installer Support for Linux on System z dump tools

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor: ---
Architectures:
  zSeries - 64 native

Arch Specificity: purely arch specific code
Affects Kernel Modules: No
Delivery Mechanism: LDP Deliverable
Category: other
Request Type: Installer - Enhancement from Distributor
d. Upstream Acceptance: Pending
Sponsor Priority P1
f. Severity: ship issue
IBM Confidential: No
Code Contribution: no
g. Component Version Target:
---

3. Business Case
The customer will have a dump disk ready to use if any problem occurs without having troubles to
configure it, which will result on a better serviceability, and in result improve the customer
satisfaction.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com

Technical contact(s):
Gonzalo Muelas Serrano, gmuelas.com