APLMGR SCF Reference Manual

PTrace Reference for Tandem FTAM

OSI/FTAM and OSI/APLMGR SCF Reference Manual—421943-001

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PTrace Commands

The EBCDIC, SETTRANSLATE, and TRANSLATE commands have no effect. All

other commands are implemented in the standard format. The PTrace DETAIL option is

issued with PTrace commands for FTAM processes (initiators and responders) to display

detailed PDU or internal-format data.

The file ZFTMSMT is provided in the software release subvolume ZOSIFTAM to use as

input to the STATETABLES command. This binary file allows PTrace to display state

information in text form, as opposed to numbers.

SELECT Command

SELECT keywords can be used in both the PTrace SELECT command and the SELECT

option of the SCF TRACE command to gather different kinds of information on

APLMGR, initiator, and responder processes. The SELECT option in the TRACE

command determines which trace records will be collected and written to the trace file;

the PTrace SELECT command determines which records in the trace file will be

selected for display.

If you use a SELECT option in a TRACE command, you do not need to repeat that same

SELECT keyword in the PTrace SELECT command—the trace file already contains

only those selected record types. However, if you have not selected any particular type

of trace information (in other words, you have used SELECT ALL in the TRACE

command), you can use the PTrace SELECT command to choose specific record types

for display.

Table 5-2

on page 5-7 shows the SELECT keywords and trace record types and subtypes

used with the APLMGR, initiator, and responder processes. Each SELECT keyword is

used to trace one or more kinds of process activity and has one or more record types

associated with it. In the case of the ASN1, USER, and PROV keywords, each record

type has several subtypes. The record identifier specifies the particular process activity

being reported in this trace record.