manual heap or thread dump in websphere

How you should force heap or thread dump using wsadmin script

Login to your machine running WAS
Navigate to
cd /profiles//bin/
Connect to deployment manager using wsadmin script
wsadmin.sh -conntype SOAP -username -password
Set object variable
wsadmin> set jvm [$AdminControl completeObjectName type=JVM,process=,node=,*]
Force heap dump
wsadmin> $AdminControl invoke $jvm generateHeapDump
In case you would like to dump threads
wsadmin> $adminControl invoke $jvm dumpThreads
Heap or thread dump will be saved to /profiles// directory with with respective naming convention

Heapdump
heapdump..phd
Threaddump
javacore..txt