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How You Send Trace Data to an Output File

Trace data collected in the internal trace table can also be sent to a CA MIM trace data set rather than to a SYSOUT class. To tell CA MIM to write trace records to a data set, preallocate a data set with the following attributes:

Issue this command to start writing to the file:

ADDLOG MIMTRC DSNAME=(MIM.TRACE)

Alternatively, use the ADDLOG to allocate multiple data sets for your tracing output. A maximum of four files can be defined for tracing. The tracing continues to the next file once the first is full.

Note: Once wrapping has gone through all available trace files, it starts again from the top and writes over any previous data.

ADDLOG MIMTRC DSNAME=(MIM.TRACE,MIM.TRACE1,MIM.TRACE2)