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Collect Diagnostic Data

If you encounter a CA product or operating system/subsystem error you suspect is caused by a CA Common Services for z/OS component, collect the appropriate information from the following list of available diagnostics:

Service

Diagnostics

CAIRIM

  • CAISMFU and CAIRIMU utilities output
  • Console messages
  • SVC dumps

CAIENF and CAIENF/CICS

  • Console messages
  • CAIENF operator commands output
  • The output from either the 'ENF SVCDUMP' command or the 'ENF DUMP' command
  • Traces
  • SVC DUMP of any problem CICS region

CAICCI

  • Console messages
  • CAICCI operator commands output
  • SVC dumps
  • Traces

Datacom/AD

  • CA4FIVP

Event Management

  • syslogd messages
  • Trace data in CAIGLBL0000/emsrvc/config/debug.log (if the CA_CAIDEBUG, CAIOPR_DEBUG, and/or CAISTARDEBUG environment variables are set and the traceinfo file exists in that same directory)
  • Web Server error log
  • oplog messages for the day
  • CEEDUMP
  • java trace if using JAVA GUI

Agent Technology

  • Contents of the STDOUT and STDERR for the batch jobs that start Agent Technology and the individual Agents
  • Trace data in the aws_orb.log, aws_sadmin.log and awservices.log files found in the directory $AGENTWORKS_DIR/services/var/log
  • Contents of the ENVFILE used by Agent Technology and the individual agents (These should be identical; differences can cause problems.)
  • Output of the TSO netstat command or the onetstat command showing port usage
  • Output of the batch job AWFTEST