Formatting OSA traces using IPCS

The IPCS CTRACE command parameters are described in Formatting component traces. The following notes apply to the IPCS CTRACE parameters with regard to the OSAENTA trace formatter:

JOBLIST, JOBNAME

The LINKNAME and JOBNAME keywords in the OPTIONS string can also be used to select records.

TALLY

Equivalent to the STATISTICS(DETAIL) option.

START, STOP

The time is set when the record was moved to the trace buffer, not when the OSA card recorded the data.

LIMIT

See the RECORDS keyword in the OPTIONS string.

USEREXIT

The packet trace formatter calls the CTRACE USEREXIT before testing the records with the filtering criteria. If it returns a nonzero return code, then the record is skipped. The USEREXIT can also be used in the OPTIONS string. It is called after the record has met all the filtering criteria in the OPTIONS string.

COMP

Must be SYSTCPOT.

SUB

The SUB must name the TCP/IP procedure that created the CTRACE records when the input is a dump data set.

EXCEPTION

Since there are no EXCEPTION records for OSAENTA trace, the EXCEPTION keyword must not be specified.

ENTIDLIST

The following values are the valid values for OSAENTA trace:

7 	Link Frame trace records

The CTRACE OPTIONS string provides a means of entering additional keywords for record selection and formatting OSA traces (COMP=SYSTCPOT). See Syntax for the complete syntax of CTRACE.

The same program is used to format OSA traces as well as packet traces. See OPTIONS syntax for the values specified for the OPTIONS keyword.