Many of the built-in troubleshooting features are documented elsewhere in the IBM TDI 7.1 documentation library. The following sections tell you where to look for information about these features.
For information about IBM TDI logging, see the "Logging and debugging" chapter in the IBM TDI V7.1 Installation and Administrator Guide.
To see examples of the logging windows of the Configuration Editor see the "Configuration Editor" chapter in the IBM TDI V7.1 Users Guide
TDI 7.1 offers an AssemblyLine debugging tool called the AssemblyLine Stepper. The AssemblyLine Stepper allows us to:
The AssemblyLine Stepper is part of the Configuration Editor. For more information about how to use the AssemblyLine Stepper, refer to the "Configuration Editor" chapter of the IBM TDI V7.1 Users Guide.
For information about IBM TDI logging, see the "Tracing and FFDC" chapter in the IBM TDI V7.1 Installation and Administrator Guide.
This feature can be very useful when providing support materials. Often, the time to reproduce the environment for an AssemblyLine and the state of data sources to reproduce a condition can be quite comprehensive. With a sandbox database with a recorded session, a support person can run the AssemblyLine without having access to all data stores the AssemblyLine requires. In addition, the AssemblyLine configuration can be modified to print out more information if that is necessary. The only change that cannot be done to the AssemblyLine configuration is to make additional calls or reorder the calls to recorded components. This would cause an error during playback as calls to the connector would not match the next expected call to the connector.
For more information, see the section called "Debugging features in TDI" in IBM TDI V7.1 Users Guide.
The Action Manager is an error management mechanism that allows us to create Action Manager rules for your AssemblyLines.
An Action Manager rule consists of two parts:
The Action Manager is part of the Administration and Monitoring Console (Administration and Monitoring Console). For instructions on how to use the Action Manager, consult the Administration and Monitoring Console chapter in the IBM TDI V7.1 Installation and Administrator Guide
The Debug Utilities tool identifies memory usage and memory leaks in specific TDI components by collecting information at specific intervals and upon certain actions.
See Performance Test Utilities and Debugging for more information about TDI's benchmarking tools.