Trace facility

To trace or debug a problem with the PDF indexer, the following is required:

• The parameter file, which specifies the fields, triggers, indexes and other indexing information
• The PDF input file to process
• The trace parameters tracedd and tracelevel

The parameter file and PDF input file can be processed by running the PDF indexer from the command line. For example:

arspdoci parmdd=filen.parms inputdd=filen.pdf outputdd=filen.out indexdd=filen.ind
tracedd=filen.trace tracelevel=PDF=15

Where:

• arspdoci is the name of the command-line version of the PDF indexer program.
• parmdd= specifies the name of the input file that contains the indexing parameters.
• inputdd= specifies the name of the PDF input file to process.
• outputdd= specifies the name of the output file that contains the indexed PDF documents created by the PDF indexer.
• indexdd= specifies the name of the output file that contains the index information that will be loaded into the database.
• tracedd= specifies the name of the output file that contains the trace information.
• tracelevel= specifies the amount of detail to be included in the trace.

After running the PDF indexer with the trace, the output file specified by the tracedd= parameter will contain detailed information about the processing that took place and where the PDF indexer is failing during the process. The output file must be formatted by the arstfmt command to create a readable trace file. For example:

arstfmt -i filen.trace -o filen.trace.output