Transaction tracking with Cross Component Trace (XCT)

You can use Cross Component Trace (XCT) to track individual requests as they flow between IBM® WebSphere® Application Server, CICS® Transaction Gateway and CICS, assisting both problem diagnosis and system planning and configuration.

The XCT facility is available when using IPIC connections and IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 or later, when High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL) is enabled. As a request flows through the system, the related XCT information is in the IBM WebSphere HPEL log, CICS TG request monitoring exit data and CICS task association data, which you can view in a variety of ways.