Environment

Environmental factors are:

• The VTAM® formatted trace and the VIT analysis tool cannot process data created by earlier VTAM releases because of changes to output formats.
• Because of the way that GTF handles entries that continue to multiple records, VTAM can only assume that the continued records are contiguous, and matching the continuation record to the prior record cannot be guaranteed.
• If you get trace information that is out of sequence, the trace may have wrapped. If the trace wrapped when it was recorded, specify WRAP on the VIT analysis tool.
• The existing VTAM formatted trace provides trace record formatting by splitting up all VIT entries into logical pieces and adding labels to indicate what the data represents. This function will not be replaced, and you can still format the VIT using the IPCS subcommands VERBEXIT VTAMMAP or GTFTRACE .