Patent attributes
System and method for gaining information about particular application and/or system events, and exception conditions generated during processing of a computer program or a transaction, stored in CICS internal trace. in trace entries. The system includes a plurality of software modules for reading the CICS internal trace, and memory for storing trace entries. The system 10 may reconstruct the application lifecycle view of transactions processed by a transaction server such as a CICS transaction server 12. The system 10 includes the plurality of software modules linked together for reconstructing the application lifecycle view of transactions processed by the CICS transaction server 12. Alternatively, there may be provided a system and method for taking a snapshot of an entire internal trace of one or more transaction server regions at a particular moment of time. In further arrangement, there is provided a system and method for reading a CICS internal trace.
