Examples of Coding Events and Formatting Events

There are five basic steps involved in generating a trace from your software program.

Those steps are as follows:

Step 1: Enable the trace
Enable and disable the trace from your software that has the trace hooks defined.
Step 2: Compile your program
This next step is to compile your program.
Step 3: Run the program
Run the program.
Step 4: Add a stanza to the format file
This provides the report generator with the information to correctly format your file. The report facility does not know how to format the HKWD_USER1 event, unless you provide rules in the trace format file.
Step 5: Run the format/filter program
Filter the output report to get only your events.

Parent topic: Defining trace Events