Miscellaneous

Enable Dimensions listener tracing

You may need to diagnose issues with the listener. Dimensions CM provides two special initialization parameters that you can use to start the listener in a mode that traces internal progress and status information to a log file for debugging purposes.

To enable tracing, uncomment and edit the following lines in the listener.dat file contained in the %installdir%\dfs folder (Windows server or agent):

-tracedir <directory_name>
-trace

where <directory_name> is the path where the trace files are to be created, for example: c:\temp\tracedir

After you have made this change, stop and restart Dimensions CM. To disable this tracing, comment out the two variables and restart Dimensions CM.

Extract Window-based directory items on Solaris

To store a Dimensions CM folder item on a Windows platform and extract it onto a Solaris platform with a directory pathname greater than 100 characters, install the publicly available GNU tar utility on both platforms.

The utility is located in:

• (Windows) %installdir%\prog

• (Solaris) $installdir/prog

If you do not, the following error is displayed:

Error: unable to extract from archive file

This is caused by 100-character limitation being handled differently by the GNU tar utility and the native version of tar shipped with Solaris.