Using traces in problem determination

This section describes the types of general and specialized trace available to you for problem determination, how to control the amount of tracing that CICS produces, and how to format and interpret tracing.

The types of tracing that can be used for CICS® systems are:

In addition to the general trace produced by CICS, there are a number of other, more specialized forms of trace that you can use. These are described as follows:

For information about using trace to solve FEPI problems, see FEPI trace.

You have a large amount of control over the amount of CICS tracing that is done. There are a number of selection mechanisms available to you to control the extent of CICS tracing carried out in the system. These are :

You can select any combination of internal tracing, auxiliary tracing and GTF tracing to be active at the same time. Your choice has no effect on the selectivity with which system tracing is done, but each type of tracing has a set of characteristic properties. These properties are described in CICS internal trace, CICS auxiliary trace, and CICS GTF trace.

Related Concepts
CICS tracing
Trace for CICS DBCTL

Related Tasks
Defining tracing for JVMs
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