CA Ideal Trace Facility

The CA Ideal Trace Facility is a debugging aid that traces the CA Ideal and CA IPC components executed when any command is executed in CA Ideal.

Under certain circumstances, CA Ideal Technical Support requests that you run a CA Ideal Trace. CA Technical Support uses the trace output to identify the internal processes that precede or accompany an abend, internal errors, or unexpected results from a CA Ideal program.

This chapter describes how to use the CA Ideal Trace Facility. Topics include are as follows:

Trace Facility Functionality
Executing a VPE service trace
Initiating a DIAL trace
Printing trace files
Trace examples
Reading trace output
Printing an object module
Identifying CA Ideal module versions
JCL requirements