Interpreting trace job and first-failure data capture data

 

This additional problem-analysis information is useful to specialists responsible for problem determination. It is also for suppliers of software products designed to conform to the Distributed Relational Database Architecture™ who want to test connectivity to a System i™ platform.

This topic collection contains an example of the RW component trace data from a job trace with an explanation of the trace data output. Some of this information is helpful with interpreting communications trace data. This topic collection also shows an example of a first-failure data capture (FFDC) printout of storage, with explanations of the output.

• Interpreting data entries for the RW component of trace job
  The RW component of the i5/OS licensed program includes most of the Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA^®) support.

• First-failure data capture
  The i5/OS operating system provides a way for you to capture and report error information for the distributed relational database. This function is called first-failure data capture (FFDC).

 

Parent topic:

Distributed database programming

 

Related tasks

Trace job