Messages and error logs for CICS Transaction Gateway on Windows

How to find the messages and error logs for a CICS® Transaction Gateway service running on Windows.

When starting CICS Transaction Gateway on Windows, any standard output or error text is captured in the file jvmdbg.log, in the <product_data_path> directory. The main use of this file is to capture debug output from the JVM, when the CICS Transaction Gateway is started with debug Java startup parameters specified.

Messages generated by CICS Transaction Gateway when running as a service are written to the application log and the system log of the Windows event viewer, whenever the service is started or stopped. Details of any startup override parameters are written to the Windows application event log when the service starts.

CICS Transaction Gateway can also be installed on a remote desktop server. In this situation you can access the product through remote desktop services.