Application Engine - Part 3 - Tracing and TraceMagic

In this article we will discuss tracing Application Engine with an example. We will also see a utility called TraceMagic to interpret the trace results in a neat manner. This part of the Application Engine article is in continuation for Part-I in the series of Application Engine articles posted on my blog. The example has been created and tested in Peoplesoft environment with DEMO database. In this example, we will use the Application Engine AJ_AE_SAMPLE that we developed in Part-I. The major steps involved will be 1) Make configuration setup for Application Engine Tracing. 2) Start Application Engine on Windows workstation. 3) Open trace file in text editor. 4) Open trace file using TraceMagic utility. To run an Application Engine program with Tr acing ON, Start PeopleSoft Configuration Manager, Select Trace tab. Please check the boxes and specify the trace file. I have specified trace file as c:\temp\TRACE.TRC as shown below. Open the Application Engine program AJ_COPY_JRNL in Applic