You can enable tracing for a number of
Micro Focus plug-ins from the
Tracing preferences page (). 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.
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Tracing of these plug-ins produces very detailed, technical information, and is usually carried out under instruction from
Micro Focus
Customer Care.
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.