Spooler Utilities Reference Manual

Using FASTP
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Specifying Trace Files for a Device
REC 4000
specifies a record size of 4000 bytes.
EXT (n,n)
specifies the primary and secondary file extent sizes and depends on the amount
of file space required. An extent consists of 2048 bytes.
Specifying Trace Files for a Device
One or more trace files for a device are specified with the SHADOW attribute, which is
included as part of the device entry in the FASTCNFG file:
DEVICE $device-name
CONTYPE = connection-type
SHADOW = $volume.subvolume.file-ID
Because there can be a maximum of eight trace files for each device, there are eight
SHADOW attribute keywords:
DEVICE $device-name
CONTYPE = connection-type
SHADOW1 = $volume.subvolume.file-ID1
SHADOW2 = $volume.subvolume.file-ID2
SHADOW3 = $volume.subvolume.file-ID3
SHADOW4 = $volume.subvolume.file-ID4
SHADOW5 = $volume.subvolume.file-ID5
SHADOW6 = $volume.subvolume.file-ID6
SHADOW7 = $volume.subvolume.file-ID7
SHADOW8 = $volume.subvolume.file-ID8
Enabling Tracing
Bit 1 of the SPOOLCOM PARM (a 16-bit binary string) device attribute enables and
disables tracing by a product-specific version of the FASTP print process.
Setting bit 5 of the 16-bit binary string to 1 forces a FASTP print process to read a
FASTCNFG configuration file where, in addition to other required information about a
device, it can find the name of the trace file that it is supposed to use for the device.
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To enable tracing: Set bit 1 of the 16-bit binary string to 1.
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To disable tracing: Set bit 1 of the 16-bit binary string to 0.
If any other bits must be set, they must all be set with one PARM entry. Do not use
multiple PARM entries for one device.
If only bits 1 and 5 are set to 1, PARM would have a decimal value of 17408:
DEV $device-name PARM 17408
Note. Trace files must be created before tracing is enabled.