Candle-lite DB2 manual Using the Ifcid Trace Facility, Overview, Starting an Ifcid Trace

Using the IFCID Trace Facility

Using the IFCID Trace Facility

Overview

The IFCID Trace facility provides the ability to start an IFCID trace to run in the background asynchronously to your OMEGAMON II session. You can initiate the IFCID trace from the OMEGAMON II for DB2 System Status panel.

To access the IFCID Trace Facility, follow these steps:

1.On the OMEGAMON II for DB2 System Status panel, select T (Tools). The pull-down menu shows IFCID Trace facility as option 3.

2.Select option 3 (IFCID Trace Facility). The pull-down menu displays the options to start, display, and stop the IFCID trace.

Note: By pressing PF3 (Exit) from any IFCID Trace panel, the display returns to the OMEGAMON II for DB2 System Panel with the Tools pull-down menu.

Starting an IFCID Trace

From Step 2 above, select option 1 (Start IFCID Trace). The IFCID Trace Start panel displays. From this panel, you must enter a dataset name and select one or more trace types. The dataset name identifies the dataset that will contain the trace data that is collected. The dataset name is a required field. The dataset must have the following characteristics:

■physical sequential

■variable length, blocked

■logical record length =32756

■block size =32760

You can select the IFCIDs to be traced by trace type (one-digit number), by trace class (a two-digit number) or by individual IFCID records (three-digit number) within a trace class.

■To select all IFCIDs associated with a trace type, enter S (Select all entries) next to the trace type. You can select as many trace types as needed. After pressing Enter to confirm your selections, the IFCID trace begins immediately for the trace type or types selected.

■To select particular IFCIDs within a trace type, enter D (Display subentries) next to the trace type. OMEGAMON II for DB2 displays the list of trace classes within the trace type. You can display the trace classes for only one trace type at a time.

–To select all IFCIDs in multiple trace classes, enter S next to each trace class. After pressing Enter to confirm your selections, the IFCID trace begins immediately.

–To select particular IFCIDs within a trace class, enter D next to the trace class. OMEGAMON II for DB2 displays a list of individual IFCID records. Enter an S next to one or more IFCIDs to start the trace for those selected IFCIDs.

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