The View Trace button allows you to review the events that took place during the translation process, as they were written to the trace file. The trace file tells you whether the map has run successfully or failed. There are three options for the trace file – short and long. You set this option under Trace Type on the Option 1 tab of the Build Acknowledgement window. When you select View Trace, the outgoing.err – Notepad window displays for non-ODBC logs and the TrNNN.dat – Notepad window displays for ODBC logs.
If you choose Short Trace and the map:
Does not encounter errors, the trace file displays a message telling you that there are 0 errors and that the map ran is complete.
Encounters any errors other than a fatal error, the trace file lists and gives a summary of all the errors that occurred and displays a message telling you that the map run is complete.
Encounters a fatal error, the trace file lists and gives a summary of all the errors that occurred up to the point that the fatal error occurred. All processing of data stops at that point so that there may be other errors beyond that point.
If you Choose Long Trace:
and the map does not encounter errors, the trace file lists each step that took place in the mapping process and displays a message at the end telling you that there are 0 errors and that the map run is complete.
and the map encounters any errors other than a fatal error, the trace file lists each step that took place in the mapping process and displays error messages at the appropriate points in the listing. At the end, it gives a summary of all the errors that occurred and displays a message telling you that the map run is complete.
and the map encounters a fatal error, the trace file lists each step that took place in the mapping process and displays error messages at the appropriate points in the listing. At the point that the fatal error occurred, all processing of data stops so that there may be other errors beyond that point.
If you choose No Trace, the trace file is not created.
