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Select CICS or IMS Filters

After entering the event duration and type filters on the Transaction Trace screen, continue by entering the CICS or IMS filter criteria. You can skip this step if you do not want to restrict the trace generation to the mainframe system. If you want to generate traces from the front end distributed tiers, it is best to skip this step.

Note: The CICS and IMS filters are mutually exclusive.

Select the check box and enter the value for each filter as needed.

CICS server name (CTG) equals

Filtered Property: Job Name or Server Name

Supported Trace Sources: CICS back-end traces that were invoked using CTG.

Value: The name of the server that was used to invoke the CTG call.

CICS/IMS communication method equals

Filtered Property: Communication Method

Supported Trace Sources: CICS or IMS back-end

Value: Cross-process tracing into CICS or IMS is available for the front-end application that invoke the transaction through the following communication CICS or IMS methods.

Enter one of these methods:

CICS methods
IMS methods
CICS program name (CTG) equals

Filtered Property: Program Name

Supported Trace Sources: CTG front-end; CICS back-end

Value: The name of the program that was executed on the CICS region.

IMS transaction ID equals

Filtered Property: Transaction ID

Supported Trace Sources: IMS back-end

Value: The transaction name.

IMS job name equals.

Filtered Property: Job Name (Dependent Region)

Supported Trace Sources: IMS back-end

Value: IMS-dependent region job name that processed the transaction.

CICS web service name equals

Filtered Property: Web Service Name

Supported Trace Sources: Web Services front-end; CICS back-end

Value: Name of the web service that is used to execute this transaction. This property is applicable only to web service transaction tracers.

CICS/IMS transaction lifetime lasting longer than

Filtered Property: Microsecond Lifetime

Supported Trace Sources: CICS or IMS back-end

Value: The transaction lifetime in microseconds

Minimum value: One microsecond

CICS/IMS transaction processor name equals

Filtered Property: Transaction Processor

Supported Trace Sources: CICS or IMS back-end

Value: The transaction processor that ran the transaction.

IMS PSB name equals

Filtered Property: PSB Name

Supported Trace Sources: IMS back-end

Value: The PSB name that is associated with the transaction.

CICS transaction name (CTG) equals

Filtered Property: Transaction Name

Supported Trace Sources: CTG front-end; CICS back-end

Value: Name of the transaction on the CICS region.

The CICS/IMS filters are set. Proceed to setting the trace duration and agents filters.