The values for the OPTIONS parameter for the CTnBPXxx parmlib member
and reply for a TRACE command, in alphabetical order, are:
- ALL
- Traces all events.
- CBTR(cbid,offset,length)
- Traces a field or fields of a control block to be traced. The
contents of the trace will be included in the trace record for all
SYSCALL trace records.
- cbid specifies the name of any of the supported z/OS® UNIX control
blocks in 1–4 characters.
- offset specifies the offset of the desired
field in the control block in range X'0'-X'FFFF').
- length specifies the length of the data, in
bytes, to be traced in the control block. length is
an integer hexadecimal value with a range of X'1'-X'8'.
- CHARS
- Traces character special events.
- DEVPTY
- Traces pseudoterminal events.
- DEVRTY
- Traces outboard communication server (OCS) remote terminal events.
- FILE
- Traces file system events. In a shared file system configuration,
selecting the FILE option also activates the XCF option.
- IPC
- Traces interprocess communication activity for shared memory,
message queues and semaphores.
- LOCK
- Traces locking services events.
- PIPE
- Traces pipe events.
- PROCESS
- Traces process events.
- PTRACE
- Traces PTRACE events.
- SIGNAL
- Traces signaling events.
- STORAGE
- Traces storage management events.
- SYSCALL
- Traces callable service layer events.
- XCF
- Traces file sharing events when using a shared file system configuration.