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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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