Before you begin
When setting up IPCS, your installation may customize IPCS for its users. IBM recommends providing access to the IPCS dialog through an ISPF panel. If your installation has not customized IPCS as recommended, you need to start the IPCS dialog. See z/OS MVS IPCS User's Guide, SA22-7596 to find out how to start the IPCS dialog.Why and when to perform this task
Perform the following steps to use the IPCS dialog to format application trace data:
Steps for this task
CTRACE COMP( cell_short_name )
where cell_short_name is the value specified through the ISPF customization dialog to identify the location of server configuration files. The name must be 8 or fewer characters and all uppercase.
Note: If you were interested in only JRAS data, you would enter the following:
CTRACE COMP( cell_short_name )USEREXIT(JRAS)Specify additional parameters as necessary.
Example: To direct trace data to the terminal only, you would append the
NOPRINTand
TERMINALparameters to the
CTRACEcommand.
Tip: For a complete list of CTRACE command parameters, see z/OS MVS IPCS Commands, SA22-7594 .
If you directed output to the... | Then use the... |
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IPCS print data set (IPCSPRNT) | ISPF/PDF Browse option |
Terminal | Dump Display Reporter panel |
Tips: To navigate through the trace data on the Dump Display Reporter panel, use the commands and PF keys listed in z/OS MVS IPCS User's Guide, SA22-7596 .
CTRACE enables you to view multiple traces together with the trace data from the various sources intermixed based on the time stamp. See z/OS MVS IPCS Commands, SA22-7594 , for specifics on using this MERGE subcommand.