Tracing preferences

You can enable tracing for a number of Micro Focus plug-ins from the Tracing preferences page (Window > Preferences > General > Tracing). These sit alongside other traceable plug-ins supplied with Eclipse. They support dynamic tracing, in that changing the tracing settings take effect without having to restart Eclipse.

The Micro Focus plug-ins cover the following areas:

• JVM COBOL projects - you must enable tracing for the main plug-in (com.microfocus.eclipse.coboljvm) before the following plug-ins can be traced:
  • com.microfocus.eclipse.coboljvm/debug/search - trace this plug-in for information on search-based functions.
  • com.microfocus.eclipse.coboljvm/debug/index/indexer - trace this plug-in for information about which classes are indexed.
  • com.microfocus.eclipse.coboljvm/debug/expression - trace this plug-in for information about expression evaluation during debugging.
• Parsing - you must enable tracing for the main plug-in (com.microfocus.eclipse.parser) before the following plug-ins can be traced:
  • com.microfocus.eclipse.parser/debug/sourcemodel/provider - trace this plug-in for information about source model connect/disconnect requests.
  • com.microfocus.eclipse.parser/debug/sourcemodel/reconcile - trace this plug-in for information about source model parse requests.
• Remote development - you must enable tracing for the main plug-in (com.microfocus.eclipse.remote.ui) before the following plug-ins can be traced:
  • com.microfocus.eclipse.remote.ui/debug - trace this plug-in for information about JSch activity, which can be used to diagnose and troubleshoot SSH connection and authentication errors.

Tracing of these plug-ins produces very detailed, technical information, and is usually carried out under instruction from OpenText Support for Micro Focus Products.

Plug-ins that are enabled (set to true) write tracing output to the log file specified at the bottom of the page. A new file is created each time the plug-in is started, and if the maximum number of trace files stored has been reached, the oldest file is deleted. Setting a maximum trace file size prevents excessively large log files from being created.