Transaction trace provides a consolidated trace of key events for the execution path of application or transaction type work units running in a multi-system application environment. By tracing the path of a work unit running in a single system, or (more importantly) across systems in a sysplex environment, that is being processed by multi-system transaction servers, subsystem interfaces, and resource managers, transaction trace enables a system programmer to debug problems in those environments.
The essential task of transaction trace is to aggregate data showing the flow of work between components in the sysplex that combine to service a transaction. Transaction trace traces events such as component entry, exit, exceptions and major events such as COMMIT, and ROLLBACK. Do not use transaction trace as a component tracing facility.