Combtrace Utility

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The Combtrace utility allows you to merge and format the Component Broker component and object services trace files into a single output file. When you turn on one or more types of component or object services traces, multiple trace files are generated. The trace files are in the service/server/ServerName subdirectory of the host on which the application server runs. The names of the trace files have a yydddhhmmss.xxx format where:

• yy is the year
• ddd is the Julian date
• hh is the hour
• mm is the minutes
• ss is the seconds
• xxx is a three digit number that runs from 101 to 999 and then rolls over to 101

98279095414.111 is an example of a trace file name. A single trace file is created for each ORB request so usually, you would have to format many trace files after the tracing has been completed. With a single invocation of the Combtrace command, you can format all these trace files.

Combtrace Syntax
Combtrace.exe has the  following syntax:

Combtrace outputfile

Combtrace passes all the yydddhhmmss.xxx files through showlog -debug, and sequentially combines the results in the specified outputfile. It ignores all file names containing a character other a number or a period (.). Combtrace only processes files in the current directory.