22.20. Encina tracing for CICS application server processes

The following procedures will allow you to find the server name used by the cicsas so that tkadmin tracing can be turned on for a cicsas process. This is an alternative to issuing the trace at startup in the /var/cics_regions/<region>/environment file.

This is a more dynamic form of tracing since you will start tracing a specific process for a specific server. It can be difficult to determine the server name that the cicsas process is using, and which is required to set the correct trace value.

To find out the server name in relation to a specific CICS Application Server process, use the following procedure:

1.
List the PIDs of the cicsas processes:
$ps -ef | grep cicsas
2.
Keep track ...

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