Locating the trace dump

If your application calls CEE3DMP, the Language Environment dump is written to the file specified in the FNAME parameter of CEE3DMP (the default is CEEDUMP).

If your application is running under TSO or batch, and a CEEDUMP DD is not specified, Language Environment writes the CEEDUMP to the batch log (SYSOUT=* by default). You can change the SYSOUT class by specifying a CEEDUMP DD, or by setting the environment variable, _CEE_DMPTARG=SYSOUT(x), where x is the preferred SYSOUT class.

If your application is running under z/OS UNIX and is either running in an address space you issued a fork() to, or if it is invoked by one of the exec family of functions, the dump is written to the hierarchical file system (HFS). Language Environment writes the CEEDUMP to one of the following directories in the specified order:

The directory found in environment variable _CEE_DMPTARG, if found
The current working directory, if the directory is not the root directory (/), the directory is writable, and the CEEDUMP path name does not exceed 1024 characters
The directory found in environment variable TMPDIR (an environment variable that indicates the location of a temporary directory if it is not /tmp)
The /tmp directory

The name of this file changes with each dump and uses the following format:

/path/Fname.Date.Time.Pid

path: Path determined from the above algorithm.
Fname: Name specified in the FNAME parameter on the call to CEE3DMP (default is CEEDUMP).
Date: Date the dump is taken, appearing in the format YYYYMMDD (such as 20090307 for March 7, 2009).
Time: Time the dump is taken, appearing in the format HHMMSS (such as 175501 for 05:55:01 p.m.).
Pid: Process ID the application is running in when the dump is taken.