RE: Comm Trace -- MIDRANGE-L

I have used the comms trace many times to debug comms applications - mainly
appc/sna and bsc. Very good & usefull.
However I tried using it last week to debug a TCP/IP session that was
transitting SSL data and the trace data was garbage.
I quite expected that, but I am interested if it can be done, maybe I have
the wrong settings.

Regards

Ian Patterson
Grange Management Consultants
tel 01947 880458
www.grange-systems.co.uk




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris Whisonant
Sent: 19 September 2003 15:24
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Subject: RE: Comm Trace


I would also add that with V5R1 you can also specify the target IP address
to trace.

Chris Whisonant
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RE: Comm Trace






You initiate a comm trace for all protocols the same, look in the system
service tools. (STRSST).  You trace a comm line resource name, and that
line
can have multiple protocols running on it (ie TCP/IP and SNA over Ethernet
can run on the same ethernet comm resource).  When you print the trace,
you
can specify what protocols you want printed.
A comm trace is pretty close to putting a data scope on a line.  It traces
all control characters including protocol control characters, framing
info,
etc.
cjg

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Phillips
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:43 PM
To: Midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Comm Trace


HI What is a comm trace? Is it done the same on all types of protocols, or
different depending. Tanks, Rob


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