CEMT SET AUXTRACE

Change auxiliary tracing options.

In the CICS Explorer, the Regions operations view provides a functional equivalent to this command.

Description

For more information about traces, see Using traces and dumps in problem determination. You might also find it useful to read the description of the CETR transaction.

Press the Clear key to clear the screen. There are two ways of starting this transaction:

Type CEMT SET AUXTRACE (or suitable abbreviations for the keywords). The resulting display lists the current status, similar to that obtained by using the CEMT INQUIRE AUXTRACE command. You can tab to the highlighted or blank fields and overtype them with the required values.
Type CEMT SET AUXTRACE (or suitable abbreviations for the keywords), followed by one or more attribute settings that you want to change. For example, cemt s aux sto a stops auxiliary tracing and causes automatic switching to occur as necessary.

Typing ? at the beginning of either the first or second line gives a syntax prompt. Resetting the values takes effect immediately.

ALL: Specifies that automatic switching between the two auxiliary trace data sets occurs as necessary until the end of this CICS® session, without the need for operator intervention.
NEXT: Automatic switching of the auxiliary trace data set occurs when the current trace data set is full, but not subsequently.
NOSWITCH: Switching between the auxiliary trace data sets does not occur without operator intervention.
PAUSE: Auxiliary tracing stops, but the data set remains open. A subsequent START request causes trace entries to be written immediately following those that were written before the PAUSE request.
START: CICS starts auxiliary tracing and opens the auxiliary trace data set if it is currently closed.
STOP: CICS stops auxiliary tracing and closes the auxiliary trace data set. A subsequent START request causes new trace entries to be written at the start of the data set, thereby overwriting the trace entries that were written before the STOP request.
SWITCH: Specifies that an immediate switch from the current auxiliary trace data set is to be made to the alternate trace data set.