Trace components

There are two main trace components.

WebSphere Commerce

The following are the tracing components in WebSphere Commerce:

Tracing Component WebSphere JRAS Extensions Trace Logger
ACCESSCONTROL (access control) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_ACCESSCONTROL
APPROVAL (approvals) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_APPROVAL
ATTACHMENT (managed files) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_ATTACHMENT
BI (business intelligence) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_BI
BUSINESSCONTEXT (business context service) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_BUSINESSCONTEXT
CACHE (caching) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_CACHE
CALCULATION com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_CALCULATION
CATALOG (catalog) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_CATALOG
CATALOGTOOL (catalog tool within the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_CATALOGTOOL
CF (command framework) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_CF
COMMAND (commands) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_COMMAND
COMPONENT_PORTAL com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_PORTAL
COMPONENT_SENSITIVE_INFO com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_SENSITIVE_INFO
COMPONENT_SERVER_MANAGEMENT com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_SERVER_MANAGEMENT
CONTENT (content management) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_CONTENT
CONTRACT (business agreements and contracts) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_CONTRACT
CURRENCY (currency) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_CURRENCY
DATASOURCE (data source) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_DATASOURCE
DB (database schema) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_DB
DEVTOOLS (WebSphere Commerce development environment tools) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_DEVTOOLS
EDP (event-driven payments) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_EDP
EJB (enterprise beans) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_EJB
EVENT (WebSphere Commerce events, such as user traffic or business auditing) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_EVENT
EXCHANGE (exchange) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_EXCHANGE
foundation.client com.ibm.commerce.foundation.client
foundation.server com.ibm.commerce.foundation.server.command.bod
INSTALLMENT com.ibm.commerce.installment
INVENTORY (inventory) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_INVENTORY
LOADER (massload utility) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_LOADER
LOBTOOLS (Management Center line-of-business tools) com.ibm.commerce.lobtools
LOBTOOLS.FOUNDATION.MODEL (the Management Center foundation subcomponent, util) com.ibm.commerce.lobtools.foundation.util
LOBTOOLS.FOUNDATION.MODEL (the Management Center foundation subcomponent, view) com.ibm.commerce.lobtools.foundation.view
LOBTOOLS.FOUNDATION.MODEL (the Management Center foundation subcomponent, model) com.ibm.commerce.lobtools.foundation.model
LOBTOOLS.FOUNDATION.MODEL (the Management Center foundation subcomponent, service) com.ibm.commerce.lobtools.foundation.service
MARKETING (marketing) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_MARKETING
MASSEXTRACT (massextract utility) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_MASSEXTRACT
MASSLOAD (massload utility) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_MASSLOAD
MERCHANDISING (merchandising) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_MERCHANDISING
MESSAGING (messaging) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_MESSAGING
NEGOTIATION (negotiations) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_NEGOTIATION
ORDER (orders) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_ORDER
PERFMONITOR (performance monitor) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_PERFMONITOR
PPC (Payment plug-in controller) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_PPC
PPC_LOCPLUGIN (Line of credit payment plug-in) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_PPC_LOCPLUGIN
PPC_PAYMENTECH_PLUGIN com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_PPC_PAYMENTECHPLUGIN
PPC_PLUGIN (payment plug-in specification) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_PPC_PLUGIN
PPC_SIMPLEOFFLINE (SimpleOffline payment plug-in) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_PPC_SIMPLEOFFLINE
Promotion Authoring (Management Center)

com.ibm.commerce.promotion.facade.server
com.ibm.commerce.marketing.promotion

Promotion evaluation:

com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_ORDER
com.ibm.commerce.marketing.promotion

PVC (pervasive computing) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_PVC
RAS (logging) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_RAS
REPORTING (reporting) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_REPORTING
RFQ (Requests for Quotes) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_RFQ
RULESSYSTEM (rules-based discounts) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_RULESYSTEM
SCHEDULER com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_SCHEDULER
SEARCH (search) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_SEARCH
Note: Use this tracing component to see the SQL being generated for the search.
SEOSITEMAP (Integration with sitemaps) com.ibm.commerce.seo
Note: Needs to be added to Configuration tab, instead of the Runtime tab of the administrative console trace logging. This change requires a server restart.

For more information, see Enabling trace at server startup in the WebSphere Application Server documentation.

You can also use this logger for any SEO-related logging.

SERVER (WebSphere Commerce Server or runtime) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_SERVER
SERVER_MANAGEMENT com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_SERVER_MANAGEMENT
SERVICE (Performance measurement loggers) com.ibm.commerce.foundation.logging.service.*
Note: This performance measurement logger package is a replacement for the com.ibm.commerce.foundation.logging.ServiceLogger service logger. For more information, see Performance measurement loggers.
SERVICELOGGER
Note: The performance measurement logger package (com.ibm.commerce.foundation.logging.service.*) is available as a replacement for this service logger. The performance measurement logger is an enhanced service logger that provides all of the logging content of this service logger in a more consistent format.
com.ibm.commerce.foundation.logging.ServiceLogger={fine, finer, finest}
  • Fine: One line per request that includes Source (web, Scheduler, and so on), URL without query string, user ID, HTTP Return code, and Elapsed time in milliseconds.
  • Finer: Everything in fine, plus the header, cookies, attributes, and parameters that are received with the request.
  • Finest: Everything in finer, plus SOAP requests, commands that are executed, and redirects.
SESSIONMANAGEMENT (cookie-based or URL-writing session management) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_SESSIONMANAGEMENT
STOREOPERATIONS (store operations) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_STOREOPERATIONS
TEXTTRANS (txttransfrom utility) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_TEXTTRANS
THREAD (thread) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_THREAD
TICKLER (ticklers) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_TICKLER
TOOLSFRAMEWORK (WebSphere Commerce tools framework for the WebSphere Commerce tools user interface) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_TOOLSFRAMEWORK
TRANSPORT_ADAPTER (MQSeries adapters) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_TRANSPORT_ADAPTER
UBF (universal business flow for approvals, contracts, and trading) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_UBF
USER (members) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_USER
UTF (approvals) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_UTF
WC_EXTERN (custom code)

Deprecated

com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_EXTERN
Note: This tracing component is deprecated and is supported for compatibility with an earlier version to aid migration from previous releases of WebSphere Commerce.

For custom code, use the WebSphere Application Server recommended tracing. See: Add logging and tracing to your application in the WebSphere Application Server documentation for more information.

WC_GIFTREGISTRY (Gift registry) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_GIFTREGISTRY

WebSphere Commerce search

com.ibm.commerce.search
WORKSPACE (content management workspaces) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_WORKSPACE
WORKSPACETOOL (content management workspace tools) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_WORKSPACETOOL
XMLTRANS (xmltransform utility) com.ibm.websphere.commerce.WC_XMLTRANS

JCA connectors

The following are the JCA connectors tracing components in WebSphere Commerce:

Tracing Component WebSphere JRAS Extensions Trace Logger
JCA email connector com.ibm.websphere.commerce.jcaemail
JCA File connector com.ibm.websphere.commerce.jcafile
JCA JMS Connector com.ibm.websphere.commerce.jcajms
JCA Sample Connector com.ibm.websphere.commerce.jcasample
JCA HTTP adapter com.ibm.websphere.commerce.adapters.jcahttp
JCA Configurator adapter com.ibm.commerce.wc.messaging.adapters.jcaconfigurator
JCA Silverpop adapter com.ibm.websphere.commerce.adapters.jcasilverpop