Troubleshooting › How You Activate Tracing › How You Send Trace Data to an Output File

How You Send Trace Data to an Output File

Trace data that is collected in the internal trace table can 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:

• RECFM=VB
• LRECL=132
• BLKSIZE=15972

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.TRACE1,MIM.TRACE2,MIM.TRACE3)