Overview

Activate BSA traces to provide additional information for Beta Systems support. BSA traces are useful when you are trying to analyze specific system activities. The following sections provide information on:

• Which BSA traces are available
• Which media can be used to log BSA trace output
• How to activate and deactivate BSA traces
• How to allocate and free a medium

Tracing BSA components

BSA traces can be logged for different BSA components:

• Beta Query Language (BQL)
• Base Output Facility (BOF)
• Base Archive Facility (BAF)
• BSA TCP/IP Server
• BSA Service Manager (BSM)

Diagnostic reports

BSA provides a diagnose and support tool that collects information on the runtime environment and writes a diagnostic report.

The writing of diagnostic reports and dumps can be initiated using the following alternative methods:

• LST parameter DIAG= (for batch job or STC)
• Operator console command (for STC only)
• BSA Service Manager option S.R (for STC only)

For more information, see "Diagnostic reports" and the BSA Service Manager Manual.