The following topics describe one way to obtain traces for a component on more than one system in a sysplex. The approach is to obtain a trace in the dump of each system and merge the traces from the dumps, using an IPCS MERGE subcommand. To be useful for diagnosis, the traces must cover the same time period and end at the same time.
You can also trace to data sets, if each system uses a unique source JCL for each external writer, so that the trace for each system goes to its own data set. If your installation has a shared SYS1.PROCLIB system library, use a unique parmlib member for each system; each unique parmlib member must specify a unique set of source JCL. If the source JCL is shared, all systems will write trace records on one data set, possibly causing contention problems.