James Newman Chen - Austin TX, US Christopher Verton Lenfest - Austin TX, US
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G06F 11/34
US Classification:
714 34, 714 45, 714E112
Abstract:
An approach is provided to trace a software program running in a multi-nodal complex computing environment. A trace request is sent from a requestor node to the nodes with the trace request associated with the software program and also associated with a transaction identifier. The software program is executed on the nodes. While the program is executing, trace data entries resulting from the execution of the software program are logged at the respective nodes with each trace data entry being associated with the transaction identifier. A log request is subsequently sent from the requestor node to the other nodes. The resulting trace data is then received by the requestor node from the target nodes and logged in a transaction based log. The transaction-based log is then provided to a user of the requestor node.