Tracing Levels
PS/nVision supports five tracing levels: 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. The following table shows the level of tracing for each value.
| Tracing Level | Description |
|---|---|
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0 |
No tracing; no log files are generated. This is the default setting. |
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1 |
The lowest level of tracing. With this setting, nVision generates basic, high-level process flow and status information. You can use this setting to check whether nVision was launched successfully and whether it can connect to Microsoft Excel and process requests. Some of the key entries in Level 1 settings are: Command Line arguments, Trace Level, Excel Process ID, Run Control Name, Report Name, Business Unit, Drill Layout, and Instance Name. A common scenario for which to use this level is if a PS/nVision process exits immediately after processing. |
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2 |
This level contains entries from level 1 plus additional information. A high-level code flow is recorded with this setting. |
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3 |
This level includes tracing up to level 2 and SQL statements. For Microsoft Windows, PS/nVision runtime SQL can be displayed by selecting the Show Report SQL option from the menu. The same SQL statements will be written into the log file by changing the trace level to 3. |
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4 |
This level is the highest and includes tracing up to level 3 plus additional function calls, output values, and other detail information. You can use this setting for identifying intermittent problems and random behaviors. |
In addition to the above trace levels, there are two additional levels available for extended nVision tracing for identifying critical issues at OpenXML engine level. These levels are available only for OpenXML mode. The following table shows the level of tracing for each value.
| Tracing Level | Description |
|---|---|
|
100 |
This enables extended nVision tracing for function level Entry Exit in OpenXML engine that logs the details of Line number, Function Name and File Name in the psnvs_%pid%.nvt trace file. |
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200 |
This level contains entries from level 100 and also generates stack trace of OpenXML engine. This generates two additional files in the log_output folder namely psnamsrv_stack.txt and psnvssrv_stack.txt |
Note:
The extended nVision tracing is a tool for PeopleSoft product support to use for better supportability. We recommend that this feature be disabled in production mode.