I have installed the debuginfo package (in the past) and extracted the kernel with: rpm2cpio kernel-default-*.s390x.rpm | cpio -idmv Then I was able to use crash with: crash -c /dev/ttyS0 --cpus 3 boot/vmlinux-*-default.xz s390zl21.memory.dump (* has to be replaced by the kernel version) If Rudi has used the referenced method, then it should be possible to open the dump this way then. If the dump is from SLE/Leap, you need the kernel download link for SLE 15 SP4 Beta or Leap.