Using the TRACE facility

BMC AMI Defender and several related programs including CZASEND implement a diagnostic facility called TRACE. The TRACE facility might be used, generally at the direction of BMC Support, as an aid in diagnosing problems. The TRACE facility causes BMC AMI Defender to output specific types of additional diagnostic messages in the CZAPRINT data set.

Otherwise, BMC AMI Defender continues to run normally when TRACE is specified; however, TRACE should not be left switched on indefinitely in production due to the additional overhead and potential for large print volumes.

The TRACE option might be specified in identical form (except for slight differences in syntax due to the differing command environments) on BMC AMI Defender and CZASEND OPTIONs statement (see OPTIONS Statement as previously discussed), on BMC AMI Defender CONFIG statement (see CONFIG statement), on the OPTIONs or a similar statement of several related programs (see the documentation for the specific program), and on the BMC AMI Defender Start and modify commands (see START command and MODIFY command).

If TRACE is completely omitted, then it defaults to the previous state of TRACE; if TRACE is specified with no trace-types or with -ALL then all tracing is turned off.

Specify zero or more of the trace specifications in the following table (in any order). Prefix any of the specifications with - (a minus sign or hyphen) to indicate negation. The specifications are processed left to right.

TRACE types

Wherever TRACE is permitted, it accepts zero or more of the following Trace types: