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CICS Trace Table Entries

When an application program abends, a CICS transaction dump is produced. This dump contains Trace Table entries which may aid you in determining the source of the abend. CA Datacom CICS Services issues a USER TRACE entry for each user entering or exiting CA Datacom CICS Services.

An abend between the issue of the USER 186 TRACE and the USER 188 TRACE indicates a CA Datacom CICS Services problem unless the CICS ABCODE is USER. Also, these entries can be written to the CICS Auxiliary File (even if there is no dump involved) when (or while) the CICS AUXTRACE is set ON.

Note: Make sure that both the SIT parameter value USERTR=ON and the DBCVTPR parameter CICSTRA=YES are specified, or the USER 186/188 TRACE entries are suppressed.

See USER 186/188 TRACE Entry Layout for information about the USER 186/188 TRACE entry layout, and see Example Report for a sample report.