Specific Control Options › SECTRACE—Security Trace

SECTRACE—Security Trace

Valid on z/OS and z/VM.

Use the SECTRACE control option to activate a diagnostic security trace on the activities of all defined users or of specific users.

All entry methods are accepted.

This control option has the following format:

SECTRACE(WTO|WTL|OFF)|(ACT,WTO|WTL)|(ON)

WTO

Activates the trace, and routes messages to the master console for all users and events.

WTL

Activates the trace and routes messages to the SYSLOG (system log). Use with the ACT operand.

ON

Activates global trace.

OFF

(Default, as long as a command is not specified in the PARMLIB) Deactivates diagnostic tracing. OFF is only used as a default when a command is not specified in the PARMLIB.

ACT

Activates the trace for users that have the TRACE attribute attached to their ACIDs. ACT must be specified with WTL or WTO in this format:

SECTRACE(ACT,WTL|WTO)