Trace File Description

The trace file is a collection of records intended primarily for Sybase Technical Support personnel.

In most situations, you enable tracing only in response to a request from Sybase Technical Support.

The actual data in any trace file depends upon the product. Representative trace file data can include:

Logged messages
Function entry and exit events
Failure points
Data passed between functional layers
Data transformations

While you can control the degree of tracing through configuration properties, any level of tracing degrades system performance. For this reason, use tracing only in specific controlled situations.

An exception to this rule involves DirectConnect server start-up. If start-up fails, you may want to use the low-level failure details written to the trace file and attempt to solve the problem without Sybase Technical Support assistance.

Note: The “Tracing” setting in the ODBC section of the odbc.ini file must be set to 0, for translation purposes. Setting this value to 1 causes a negative impact on performance.