•  Preface
  • Purpose
  • Audience
  • Organization
  •  Using ABL documentation
    • References to ABL compiler and run-time features
    • References to ABL data types
  • Typographical conventions
  •  Examples of syntax descriptions
    • Long syntax descriptions split across lines
    • Complex syntax descriptions with both required and optional elements
  • Example procedures
  •  OpenEdge messages
    • Obtaining more information about OpenEdge messages
•  OpenEdge Debugger
  •  Introduction
    • Debugger system requirements
    •  Debugger features and functions
      •  Application control
        • Open and incremental execution
        • Procedure interruption
        • Procedure termination
      • Application data management
      •  Execution monitoring
        • Code path analysis
        • Transaction monitoring
        • Breakpoint analysis
        • Dynamic object monitoring
      •  Session management and information
        • Window settings
        • Listing management
        • ABL Debugger control
    • Enabling debugging
    •  Understanding debugging sessions
      • Interaction between Debugger and client
      •  Debugger and application control
        • Application interaction during Debugger control
        • Debugger interaction during application control
    •  Procedures and the Debugger context
      •  The Debugger context
        • Procedures and triggers
        • Persistent procedures
        • Callback procedures
        • Data
        • Execution status
      • Debugger context and the procedure call stack
    •  Debugging in a distributed environment
      • Distributed debugging
      • Remote debugging
      • Compatibility issues
  •  Starting and Stopping the Debugger
    •  Debugging modes
      •  Application mode
        • Exiting procedures started with Debug > Run
        • Exiting the Debugger before the initial application
        • Exiting the initial application before the Debugger
      • Stand-alone mode
      •  Attachable mode
        • Requirements for r-code
        • Performance and security considerations
      •  Making the process ready for debugging
        • Using the Debugger window
        • Using the Ready Attachable Debugger (-debugReady) startup parameter
        • Using the proDebugConfig command
    • Stacked applications
    • Debugging from the Procedure Editor
    • Debugging from the AppBuilder
    • Debugging from the ADE Desktop
    • Debugging from the OpenEdge command line
    •  Debugging from alert dialog boxes
      • Displaying the .NET Stack Trace in the Stack Trace dialog box
      • Displaying the ABL Error CallStack in the Stack Trace dialog box
      • Starting the Debugger from the Stack Trace dialog box
    • Debugging from an ABL procedure
    •  Debugging in attachable mode
      • Detaching from the process
  •  Debugger Window and Files
    • Debugger window layout
    •  Debugger window panes
      •  Source code pane
        • Debug listing
        • Listing indicators
        • Text selection
        • Run to Line command
      • ABL stack trace pane
      •  Variables pane
        • Accessing array variables and parameters
        • Accessing BLOB fields
        • Accessing CLOB fields and LONGCHAR variables
        • Accessing DATETIME and DATETIME-TZ variables
        • Accessing class object instances
        • Accessing object properties
        • Accessing ProDataSet objects
      •  Watches pane
        • Watches for built-in functions
        • Drag-and-drop watches
    • Debugger title bar
    •  Debugger menu bar options
      • Accelerator keys and mnemonics
      • File menu
      • Edit menu
      • Search menu
      • View menu
      • Debug menu
      • Diagnostics menu
      • Data menu
      • Window menu
      • Help menu
    • Debugger toolbar buttons
    • Debugger status bar
    •  Debugger dialog boxes
      • Add Watch dialog box
      •  Attach to Process dialog box
        • Using the Make debug-ready and Attach option
        • Using the Attach to debug-ready Process option
      • Breakpoints dialog box
      •  Dataview dialog box
        • Attributes tab
        • Fields tab
        • Array tab
        • Value tab
        • Distinguishing ProDataSet methods from attributes
      •  Dynamic Object Tracking dialog box
        • Control Monitoring tab
        • View Objects tab
      •  Edit Breakpoint dialog box
        • Editing a breakpoint
        • Editing a watchpoint
      • Find dialog box
      •  New Breakpoint dialog box
        • Setting a breakpoint in a procedure
        • Procedure names and line numbers
        • Conditional breakpoints
        • Setting an error-based breakpoint
        • Breakpoints triggered by errors
        • Setting a watchpoint
        • Watchpoint expressions
        • Watchpoint conditions
        • Adding a watchpoint to a watch
      • Open dialog box
      •  Preferences dialog box
        • Font tab
        • Settings tab
        • Attachable tab
      • Select Process dialog box
    •  Debugger files
      •  Debug listing files
        • Automatic listing generation
        • Manual listing generation
      • Locating debug listing files in attachable mode
      •  Procedure files and listing generation
        • Debug listing generation from r-code
        • Debug listing generation from source code
        • Hidden procedure files
  •  Using System Handles for Debugging
    • DEBUGGER system handle attributes and methods
    •  Using the DEBUGGER system handle to start and control the Debugger
      •  Using the DEBUGGER system handle in application mode
        • Debugging by controlling breakpoints from an ABL procedure
        • Debugging a called subprocedure
    • Using the DEBUGGER system handle in stand-alone mode
    • Using the SESSION handle to start the Debugger
•  Troubleshooting Resources
  •  Logging in OpenEdge
    •  Logging infrastructure overview
      • LOG-MANAGER system handle attributes and methods
      • DSLOG-MANAGER system handle attributes and methods
    •  Log files
      • Specifying the log filename
      • Clearing the log file
      • Writing user messages to the log file
      • Closing the log file
    •  Log size threshold
      • Specifying the log size threshold
      • Specifying the number of log files retained
      • Filename for rolled-over log files
      • srvrLogWatchDogInterval property
    •  Log entry types
      • Log entry types (Client context)
      • Log entry types (Server context)
      • Specifying log entry types
    •  Logging levels
      • Specifying the logging level
    • Logging settings
  •  Log Entry Types Detail
    • ABL message logging
    • ABL trace logging
    • ABL transaction logging
    • AIA logging
    • AppServer logging
    • Database connection logging
    •  DataServer logging
      • DataServer client context logging
      • DataServer server context logging
      • DataServer logging switch for ABL to SQL correlation
    •  Dynamic object logging
      •  Logging dynamic object creation and deletion
        • Logging class creation and deletion
      • Deleted objects
      • Objects created and deleted implicitly
      •  Logging levels for dynamic objects
        • Basic logging level (2)
        • Verbose logging level (3)
    •  Event logging
      • Event generation
      • Event stack
      • Logged events
      • Logged information
      • Event log entry types and logging levels
      • Starting event logging
      •  Event message formats
        • Format 1: event occurs
        • Format 2: indirect action
        • Format 3: pushed on to the stack/popped off the stack
        • Format 4: generated by the ABL APPLY statement
        • Format 5: trigger execution
        • Format 6: event discarded
      • Sample Event logs
    • File access logging
    • Ignored operation logging
    • NameServer logging
    •  Query information logging
      • Query information log entry type and logging levels
      •  Starting query information logging
        • Starting query information logging on individual queries
        • Writing query statistics on-demand
      •  Generating query information
        • Distinguishing between query objects
        • Unsupported queries
      • Query information logged
      •  Query plan
        • Identifying indices
      •  Query statistics
        • Query statistics for pre-pass queries
        • Query statistics for non-pre-pass queries
        • Query preparation statistics
        • Number of records sent by the server
        • Number of available records in the query
        • Time taken to build a result-list
        • Field list information
        • Database block access
        • Read Access Statistics
      • Sample query information logs
    • SAX parser logging
    • Temp-table logging
    • Unified Broker logging
    •  Web Services Adapter (WSA) and Web Service logging
      • WSA Log entry types
      • Setting the WSADefault log entry type
      • Setting the loggingLevel property
      • Setting the serviceLoggingLevel property
      • Setting the serviceFaultLevel property
      • Understanding Web service information in WSA logs
    • WebSpeed Messenger logging
  •  Other Diagnostics Resources
    •  Abnormal termination dump files
      • procore file
      • protrace file
      • core file
    • How the AVM handles failure conditions
    •  Run-time diagnostics
      • Collecting r-code usage statistics
      • Collecting temp-table usage statistics
      • Supported virtual system tables for temp-tables
      • ABL classes for accessing temp-tables
      • Index Statistics file
      • Table Statistics file
      • Progress.Database.TempTableInfo:GetTableStatHistoryHandle()
      •  Analyzing ABL code
        • Debug Alert startup parameter
        • Enhanced logging features
        • STARTUP-PARAMETERS attribute of the SESSION system handle
        • ProSpy Plus
      • Generating a protrace file for a running program
    •  Analyzing procedures and queries
      • COMPILE XREF option
      • INDEX-INFORMATION attribute of the query object handle