Micro Focus Net Express / Server Express in GDT Update

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California Consolidated Tracing Facility  Quote from Micro Focus representative at this years Micro Focus Developers Conference n “This is one of the most important tools developed by Micro Focus for production level application debugging”  Micro Focus found the need for an all purpose tracing and debugging tool with a consistent interface across all production platforms and environments to be configurable by the user

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California Consolidated Tracing Facility  Why so important? n Helps Micro Focus customers to better debug their COBOL applications n Helps Micro Focus support line to better isolate problem issues n Helps Micro Focus Development to produce better products n Can be easily extended and will drive future development of Micro Focus debugging tools.

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California Consolidated Tracing Facility  Very simple to use n Simply setting an environment variable called mftrace_config to point to a valid Consolidated Tracing Facility configuration file  What does CTF provide? n Trace records that contain l Event ID’s l Component names l Time and Date stamps l Thread ID’s n Event specific data and trace records are all under the user control!

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California Trace information  Each trace record is an event that occurs as the application is running  Trace files are generated on a per process basis  Multi threads within a single process go to the same trace output file

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California CTF Architecture

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California Enabling Tracing

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California CTF configuration file

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California The Details  mftrace.dest = textfile,binfile,winevent n mftrace.dest specifies the default output destination to be used when tracing n textfile, binfile, winevent are all Emitters

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California The Details

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California The Details

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California Component Entries

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California Component Entries

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California Component Entries

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California Run the Application

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California The CTF Viewer

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California CCISM32  Fileshare Shared Memory protocol n is not officially available n It is not yet a supported feature

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California CCISM32  (Test Session) JOB SPECIFICS

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California CCISM32  Test Session n On my personal laptop l Micro Focus Products Info Utility v5.11: l Generated on: April 28, 2006 at 09:53:58 l Basic OS Info: l Windows XP l Version Number: 5.01 Build #2600 Service Pack 2 l Memory Page Size : 4096 l Granularity of Memory Allocation: l Lowest Available Memory Address : l Highest Available Memory Address: l Number of Processors : 1 l Processor Type : Intel Pentium l Revision : Model 9 Stepping 2 l Memory Info: l Total Physical Memory : 467,124,224 bytes l Available Physical Memory : 122,822,656 bytes l Total Virtual Memory : 2,147,352,576 bytes l Available Virtual Memory : 2,116,366,336 bytes l Memory In Use : 73 percent l Computer & User Info: l Computer Name : INFOSOL-B04BEFF l User Name : devans l Network User Name : devans On Detlef’s Machine

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California CCISM32  Job Statistics n Doug’s Machine l With CCISM32 and messages off – 10 min 55 seconds  gdt01762 l With CCITC32 and messages off – 43 min 45 seconds  gdt01751 n Detlef’s Machine l With CCISM32 and messages off – 2 min 20 seconds l With CCITC32 and messages off – 9 min 35 seconds

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California Browse with the Net Express IDE  Browsing programs is a technique for navigating source code rapidly, and for understanding the code's structure and relationships. For example you can find out: n Where a data item is defined, and which programs modify it n Which routines this program calls n For object-oriented (OO) programs, the superclass and subclass of this class.

Micro Focus Net Express Server Express in GDT Update Doug Evans GDT 2006 International User Conference: Evolving the Legacy – Revolutions June  Palm Springs, California Browse with the Net Express IDE