Specifies an alternate system symbol table for SDA to use, for example, if you want to analyze a crash dump taken on a processor running a different version of OpenVMS. /SYMBOL is ignored if it is specified with /OVERRIDE or /RELEASE. Format: /SYMBOL = system-symbol-table system-symbol-table The file specification of the SDA system symbol table required by SDA to analyze a system dump. The specified system-symbol-table must contain those symbols required by SDA to find certain locations in the executive image. If you do not specify the /SYMBOL qualifier, SDA uses SDA$READ_DIR:SYS$BASE_IMAGE.EXE to load system symbols into the SDA symbol table. When you specify the /SYMBOL qualifier, SDA assumes the default disk and directory to be SYS$DISK:[ ], that is, the disk and directory specified in your last DCL command SET DEFAULT. If you specify a file for this parameter that is not a system symbol table, SDA exits with a fatal error.
1 – Examples
$ ANALYZE/CRASH_DUMP/SYMBOL=SDA$READ_DIR:SYS$BASE_IMAGE.EXE SYS$SYSTEM This command invokes SDA to analyze the crash dump stored in SYS$SYSTEM:SYSDUMP.DMP, using the base image in SDA$READ_DIR.