If only I had a tool that’d collect all the data that the product team wants from me to look at this problem…. Wishful thinking??? No. If you look around the utilities directory under the product install (/usr/lpp/cics/utils) you will find a tool called “cicsservice”.
“cicsservice” utility is meant to help automatically generate either the entire set of logs such as region logs, SFS logs, installed product information, intersystem communication information and so on. You could collect all the information at one go or selectively collect a set of information as well.
Prior to 7.1, usage of cicsservice tool was either to collect all data or interactively collect selective logs. With 7.1, a change has been made to use options to collect selective data non interactively. This can be quite handy, especially if you would like to involve this command in your customized scripts.
Some customers find that the size of output generated by cicsservice is high and gets hard to pass the data back to support teams. While selective data collection can help manage the size of data better, as a best practice you might want to archive older product logs, which will control the size of the data collected.
A generic tip on handling product logs : create separate file systems for storing your log files (dumps, trace etc.). This would ensure that even if the file system size hits the peak, region execution does not get affected.
Documentation on cicsservice can be found here, http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/txformp/v7r1/index.jsp
TXSeries library can be found here, http://www-01.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/txseries/library/
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