How to view a trace of SM49/SM69

[symon_braunbaer]

Dear Experts,

this should be very easy for many of you... I had to determine, why brconnect was not starting

via a gateway on another host, I wanted to check the execution through SM49/SM69. As there

was very little output, I have noticed, that there is a trace check box at the right of the transaction

screen, but no option how to browse through the generated trace(s).

I was checking the generated dev_rfc files in the work directory, but was not able to find my trace.

How could I reliably browse the traces, generated for my run ?

Thanks in advance!

[alwina_enns]

Hello Symon,

since sapxpg is used to start external commands you should check dev_cp trace in ST11.

regards, Alwina

[former_member661927]

Hi Symon.

What exactly you want to do?

Describe you landscape. This is a distributed installation (DB and CI in different hosts)?

It is a Windows or Unix platform?

Sometimes ins Unix platform you may have an incorrect permission on Br* files after update/upgrade kernel. Check this note:

Problem Description: http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/651351

Adjust permissions: http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/113747

I hope this help.

regards,

Mauricio

[ACE-SAP]

Hello

When you activate the trace the log gets written in files dev_cp, in directory

/usr/sap/<SID>/DVEBMGS00/work.

You can see it directly through transaction ST11

Using the here under note you can also activate trace that will be written  to an SXPG* file.

Regards

1612730 - External commands: Trace on calling side

[alwina_enns]

or you can sort traces in ST11 by "last change" column and check the traces which are updated at the time of your test in SM49