Accessing debugging information

The following sections list the debugging information available to CICS® users, and describe where you can find this information.

Under CICS, the Language Environment runtime messages, Language Environment traceback, and Language Environment dump output are written to the CESE transient data queue. The transaction identifier, terminal identifier, date, and time precede the data in the queue. For detailed information about the format of records written to the transient data queue, see z/OS Language Environment Programming Guide.

The CESE transient data queue is defined in the CICS destination control table (DCT). The CICS macro DFHDCT is used to define entries in the DCT. See CICS Resource Definition Guide for a detailed explanation of how to define a transient data queue in the DCT. If you are not sure how to define the CESE transient data queue, see your system programmer.