For VS COBOL II programs compiled with the FDUMP option, you could get a formatted dump of COBOL WORKING-STORAGE. VS COBOL II FDUMPs were directed to the SYSDBOUT data set. For details on dump destination under Language Environment, see Language Environment formatted dumps.
When a VS COBOL II program that is compiled with OPT and FDUMP and which contains ODO data structures is run under Language Environment and abends, level-1 items will be dumped as group items in the Language Environment formatted dump.