22.23. Starting and stopping client daemon tracing

To start client daemon tracing, enter the CICSCLI command with the -d option, for example:

CICSCLI -d=nnn

Here, nnn is optional, and is the maximum size in bytes of the data areas to be traced. The default value is 512.

We recommend that you set at least -d=1000 to ensure that all relevant data is included in the trace before sending it to your support organization.

As a general rule the following is recommended for CICS client tracing:

CICSCLI -d=9999 -m=all

If you need to trace the Client daemon immediately from startup, you can specify the -s and -d parameters together in the same CICSCLI command. For example, the following command starts the connection to a CICS server with the name CICSTCP, ...

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