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Creating the .option file to debug Sales Center client

About this task

The .options file contains information about which plug-ins you want to debug and trace. It is possible to create a .options file manually, but it is difficult to remember all the different plug-ins and what debug options are available for each one. This section uses the IBM Sales Center development environment to help you generate the .options file. This is only required when you enable tracing and debugging for the first time or when you want to add new plug-ins and regenerate the .options file.

To create a .options file:

Procedure

  1. Enable tracing in the IBM Sales Center development environment.
  2. Click Run > Sales Center to launch the IBM Sales Center client and generate the .options file.
  3. Find the .options file in the WCDE_installdir\mscworkspace\plugins\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.pde.core\Sales Center directory. The .options file should be similar to the following example:
    #Master Tracing Options
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.ui/debug/tracing=false
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.core.impl/debug/bod/dumpLocation/initialdelay=120
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.core.impl/debug/bod/request/dump=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales/debug/logging/roles/activities=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.core.impl/debug=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales/debug/logging/roles=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.services/debug/logging=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.services/debug/versioning=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.core.impl/debug/bod/response/dump=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.core.impl/debug/logging=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales/debug/logging/roles/registry=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.core.impl/debug/bod/request=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales/debug=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.ui.impl/debug=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.ui/debug/logging=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.services/debug=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.ui/debug/logging/extensions=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.ui.impl/debug/logging=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.services/debug/tracing=false
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.ui/debug=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.core.impl/debug/tracing=false
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.core.impl/debug/bod/dumpMaxFiles=200
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.core.impl/debug/bod/dumpLocation/cleanintervel=600
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.core.impl/debug/bod/dumpLocation/clean=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.core.impl/debug/bod/dumplocation=debug/bodmessages/
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales/debug/logging=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.ui.impl/debug/logging/extensions=true
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.ui.impl/debug/tracing=false
    com.ibm.commerce.telesales.core.impl/debug/bod/response=true
    
  4. Close the IBM Sales Center client and the development environment.