Enabling Adabas Tracing

Tracing should only be used if errors occur, and only with assistence from Software AG Support.

Warning:
Activating the trace version will massively degrade the performance of Adabas.

Enabling Tracing on UNIX

Start of instruction setTo enable tracing on UNIX

  1. Change to the directory Adabas/trace/INSTALL.

  2. Source the adaenv file to change the ADAPROGDIR variable.

  3. Set the environment variable PT_TRACELEV to a reasonable value (with the help of Software AG support).

  4. Set the environment variable SAGTMP to a directory of your choice as the location of the trace files. Note that the trace files can get very large in a short time.

Enabling Tracing on Windows

Start of instruction setTo enable tracing on Windows

  1. Ensure that the correct Adabas version was activated.

  2. Open an Adabas command prompt window.

  3. Change to the directory Adabas\trace\INSTALL.

  4. Call the adaenv.bat command file.

  5. Set the environment variable PT_TRACELEV to a reasonable value (with the help of Software AG support).

  6. Set the environment variable SAGTMP to a directory of your choice as the location of the trace files. Note the trace files can get very large in a short time.