AIX

Hi
I am looking for a way to confirm whether a core File is complete or Truncated
Is there any way

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Khan

sysdumpdev -L

this will show you information on the previous dump.

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sysdumpdev [-P] [-p Device | -s Device]
sysdumpdev [-l | -q | -e | -z | -r Host:Path | -p Device | -s Device | -L]
sysdumpdev [-d | -D] Directory
sysdumpdev [-c | -C]
sysdumpdev [-k | -K]
sysdumpdev [-i | -I]

Change the primary and secondary dump device designations
in a running system.

-d Directory Specify the directory where the dump is copied to at
boot time. If the copy fails the system continues to boot.
-D Directory Specify the directory where the dump is copied to at
boot time. If the copy fails then a menu is displayed to
allow user to copy the dump.
-e Estimate the size of the dump (in bytes) for the
current running system.
-k Requires the key mode switch to be in the service
position before a dump can be forced with the reset
button or the dump key sequences.
-K The reset button or the dump key sequences will force
a dump with the key in the normal position, or on a
machine without a key mode switch.
-l List the current dump device designations.
-L Display statistical information about the previous dump.
-p Device Change the primary dump device to the specified
device temporarily.
-P Make the dump device specified by -p or -s flags permanent.
Can only be used with -p or -s flags.
-q Suppress any error messages that are written
to stdout.
-r Host:Path Free the space used by the remote dump file.
-s Device Change the secondary dump device to the specified
device temporarily.
-z Write out to stdout the string containing the size
of the dump in bytes and the name of the dump device
if a new dump is present.
-c Turns OFF compression for next dump.
-C Turns ON compression for next dump.
-i Indicates that sysdumpdev was called from an IBM function.
-I Resets the indications of -i option.

If no flag is specified, the permanent dump device designations are used.

But i think sysdumpdev requires root privilges and it gives information about previous dump.
Actually i get core file from customers and before i start my investigation i need to make sure that core file is complete and not truncated.
On solaris i use the following method to check core file
% elfdump -p core | tail -5
Program Header[13]:
p_vaddr: 0xffbf8000 p_flags: [ PF_X PF_W PF_R ]
p_paddr: 0 p_type: [ PT_LOAD ]
p_filesz: 0x8000 p_memsz: 0x8000
p_offset: 0x71a24 p_align: 0
% ls -la core
-rw------- 1 joeuser staff 498212 Jun 4 14:04 core

# add the <filesz> field and the <offset> field of the
# last program header segment to find the total expected
# size of the core file. See if that number matches
# the size shown by the ls command.

% dbx -c "print 0x8000 + 0x71A24 ; quit"
dbx: warning: unknown language, 'ansic' assumed
0x8000+0x71a24 = 498212

# The result matches, so this is a complete core file.



is there anything equvivalent to above method

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khan