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How to turn on Engineering Workflow Management trace log from Visual Studio

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Question

How do you turn on the IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) trace log from Microsoft Visual Studio to troubleshoot Visual Studio related issue in Engineering Workflow Management?

Answer

To get the EWM trace logs, modify the Visual Studio config file named: "devenv.exe.config". This config file can be found in the same folder as "devene.exe". For example, "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\deven.exe.config":
  1. Close Visual Studio and then open the config file in Wordpad.
  2. Go to the end of the file; you see similar codes like the following:
    ..................
    <system.net>
    <settings>
    <ipv6 enabled="true"/>
    </settings>
    </system.net>
    </configuration>
  3. Before the "</configuration>" tag, paste in the following lines
    <system.diagnostics>
    <switches>
    <add name="RTCTraceLevel" value="4"/>
    </switches>
    </system.diagnostics>
  4. Save the file and close it.(4 is the highest tracing level, similar to Verbose option)
  5. Now start Visual Studio, try to reproduce the problem.
     

EWM starts logging. The trace files can be found at the location pointed to by the "APPDATA" environment variable, under IBM\Rational\Team Concert Visual Studio Client subdirectory. For example, if APPDATA points to "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data" the location of Rational Team Concert logs are found under "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\IBM\Rational\Team Concert Visual Studio Client"

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Refer to technote 1319600 for details and links.

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Product Synonym

EWM

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Modified date:
05 June 2023

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