PQ72616: DIST DEBUGGER WON'T START IF NOT INSTALLED IN DEFAULT PATH ON SERVER

APAR status
Closed as user error.

Error description
Customer had installed the IBM Distributed Debugger and Object
Level Trace facility (V9) on a Sun Solaris V5.8 system. During
install, the customer changed the installation path to meet
their standards and requirements, rather than installing in the
default path of /opt/IBMdebug.  They also installed V9 of the
Distributed Debugger and Object Level Trace facility on a
Microsoft Windows 2000 system.  When attempting to debug an
application running on their Solaris system using the Windows
2000 machine for the GUI, the OLT portion of the debugger would
attempt to start a portion of the debugger (the engine monitor)
on the Solaris system, but this would fail with no error
messages.  On the Windows 2000 machine, with step-by-step
debugging mode selected, the customer would see the Object
Level Trace Viewer screen record OLT Trace activity, they would
then see the "Method Breakpoint" popup window, they would select
the breakpoint in the popup and click on "OK", but the
Distributed Debugging window would never appear.
Local fix
The customer added a symbolic from /opt/IBMdebug to their
installation path for the OLT/DD.
Problem summary Problem conclusion Temporary fix Comments
The 'dbgsetup' file is a script and the customer, if they
really wanted to, could modify it to alter the install
path. It is not difficult, but also not suggested and not
supported. No work will be done to fix the install of the
distributed debugger. In this case, it appears as if there
was an error in path information.
APAR information
APAR number PQ72616
Reported component name WEBSPHERE AE SO
Reported component ID 5630A2202
Reported release 400
Status CLOSED USE
PE NoPE
HIPER NoHIPER
Submitted date 2003-03-28
Closed date 2003-04-15
Last modified date 2003-04-15

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Product categories: Software > Application Servers > Distributed Application & Web Servers > WebSphere Application Server > General
Operating system(s):
Software version: 400
Software edition:
Reference #: PQ72616
IBM Group: Software Group
Modified date: Apr 15, 2003