Re: Printing a TRSOURCE/IPFORMAT Trace
Hi Dick, The 'formatted' IPFORMAT data file (file type IPFDATA) is packed with the PIPE PACK stage. If you process this file with the PIPE UNPACK stage, you 'll have a flat file that contains all of the formatted packet data (after th e packet 'summary') in a more legible form, that you can edit, print as needed... The Pipe below will create suh a flat file: pipe tracex ipfdata a | unpack | tracex prtdata a The various formatted packets are prefixed using a Pn marker string. Regarding the (un?) ordered display of selected packets , this could be d ue to a bug in the code. If you'd like to pursue that further, just open a PMR with the support center... Regards, Mark Cibula, IBM z/VM Systems Management
Re: Printing a TRSOURCE/IPFORMAT Trace
Mark, that did the trick. Thanks. I'll follow up on the un-ordered display of selected packets. Mark Cibula [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/11/2008 8:36 AM Hi Dick, The 'formatted' IPFORMAT data file (file type IPFDATA) is packed with the= PIPE PACK stage. If you process this file with the PIPE UNPACK stage, you= 'll have a flat file that contains all of the formatted packet data (after th= e packet 'summary') in a more legible form, that you can edit, print as needed... The Pipe below will create suh a flat file: pipe tracex ipfdata a | unpack | tracex prtdata a The various formatted packets are prefixed using a Pn marker string. Regarding the (un?) ordered display of selected packets , this could be d= ue to a bug in the code. If you'd like to pursue that further, just open a = PMR with the support center... Regards, Mark Cibula, IBM z/VM Systems Management The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you.
Printing a TRSOURCE/IPFORMAT Trace
While investigating my VLAN-aware VSWITCH problems, I've used TRSOURCE, TRACERED, and IPFORMAT to view the trace records in a formatted manner. But I like paper sometimes, and I've only discovered that in IPFORMAT I can use the SAVE command for the first trace record, and then the APPEND command for each subsequent record, to save the formatted displays in a file. Is there an easier/quicker way to save the formatted displays to a file, rather than entering SAVE/APPEND/APPEND/APPEND... for each trace record? Also, if I highlight/select the records in IPFORMAT to VIEW them, they are presented in the order 1, 10, 11, 12... 2, 3, 4. Why is that? Thanks for insights! Dick Clapper The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you.
Re: Printing a TRSOURCE/IPFORMAT Trace
Use the supplied IPFORMAT EXEC. Brian Nielsen On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:13:36 -0600, Richard Clapper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While investigating my VLAN-aware VSWITCH problems, I've used TRSOURCE, TRACERED, and IPFORMAT to view the trace records in a formatted manner. But I like paper sometimes, and I've only discovered that in IPFORMAT I can use the SAVE command for the first trace record, and then the APPEND command for each subsequent record, to save the formatted displays in a file. Is there an easier/quicker way to save the formatted displays to a file, rather than entering SAVE/APPEND/APPEND/APPEND... for each trace record? Also, if I highlight/select the records in IPFORMAT to VIEW them, they are presented in the order 1, 10, 11, 12... 2, 3, 4. Why is that? Thanks for insights! Dick Clapper The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient , you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you. = ===
Re: IPFORMAT
Hi Brian, Perhaps just processing the formatted file with the PIPE UNPACK stage wil l provide data in a format more suited to your needs: pipe tracex ipfdata a | unpack | tracex altdata a The various formatted packets are prefixed using a Pn marker string. Regards, Mark Cibula, IBM z/VM Systems Management
Re: IPFORMAT
Thanks, that did exactly what I wanted. I had previously tried using COP Y (UNPACK which didn't work. Brian Nielsen On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:11:56 -0600, Mark Cibula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot e: Hi Brian, Perhaps just processing the formatted file with the PIPE UNPACK stage wi ll provide data in a format more suited to your needs: pipe tracex ipfdata a | unpack | tracex altdata a The various formatted packets are prefixed using a Pn marker string. Regards, Mark Cibula, IBM z/VM Systems Management = ===
IPFORMAT
I'm using IPFORMAT to view a trace and I'd like to create a file with all the packets formated rather than viewing them one at a time on the screen. The purpose for doing this is to make it easy to search for certain patterns in the packets being exchanged. The IPFDATA file that IPFORMAT writes appears to be close, but it's a variable length file with everything squashed together. It's not in packed format and XEDIT was no help. The SAVE subcommand only does the currently displayed packet. I don't see any other IPFORMAT options or subcommands that might help. Brian Nielsen
