Steps To Take FRD Trace in 11.5.10 & R12 [ID 867943.1]

Applies to:
Oracle Inventory Management - Version: 11.5.10.0 and later   [Release: 11.5.10 and later ]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
This note includes all versions of Oracle E-Business Suite 11i and Release 12
Goal
Steps to take FRD Trace in 11.5.10 and R12 ?
Solution
In 11i
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1.   Login to your Instance Unix session as Apps.

2.   Login to System Administrator Responsibility in Oracle Applications.

3.   Add the following profile to the USER LEVEL as follows

(e.g.)  ICX: Forms Launcher = http://celalnx32.us.oracle.com:10403/dev60cgi/f60cgi?&record=collect&log=ABC.log

4.    Logout and Log back in again, for this profile to take effect. When you login again, a message box pops up, which alerts you that Diagnostics is enabled.

5.    Reproduce the Forms-Issue.

6.    Exit the application.

7.    Locate the file in the directory set by variable $FORMS_TRACE_PATH.


In R12
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1. Login to your Instance Unix session as Apps.

2.Make the USER value for profile option 'ICX: Forms Launcher' the same as the SITE value.

3. Append the USER value of ICX: Forms Launcher with the "?record=collect" and save this at the user level.
(Eg):http://celalnx20.us.oracle.com:10106/forms/frmservlet?record=collect

4. Logout and Log back in again, for this profile to take effect. When you login again, a message box pops up, which alerts you that Diagnostics is enabled.

5. Go to Help->About Oracle Applications, go to the section 'Forms Server Environment Variables'
There you should see a value in FORMS_TRACE_DIR. Note down the value.
 
6. Reproduce the Forms-Issue.
 
7. Locate the file in the directory noted in FORMS_TRACE_DIR.

Note: By default, this directories named as forms_.trc where pid is the process identifier.
Collect _