Consolidated Tracing Facility
The Consolidated Tracing Facility (CTF) is a tracing infrastructure that
enables you to quickly and easily produce diagnostic information detailing the
operation of Micro Focus software components.
A number of components are enabled to provide information
using the Consolidated Tracing Facility. See
Component List for a
full list of tracing-enabled
components.
To use the Consolidated Tracing Facility you perform the following
steps:
- Edit a side file to enable tracing and define the tracing information
you want to capture. You use the entries in the side file to specify
information such as the application you want to trace, the severity level of
tracing messages you want to see, and emitters to be
used to output the tracing
information.
- Run the applications. The Consolidated Tracing Facility uses
modules
called emitters to output all the relevant
information. See
Emitter List for a
list of available emitters.
- Examine the results. The completeness of the information output by
each of the emitters
provides you with all the relevant diagnostic information to help you
troubleshoot problems.
You can also produce tracing information for your own programs by
using library routines that give you access to the Consolidated Tracing
Facility infrastructure. See
Consolidated Tracing Facility Routines for more information.
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