Use the Background Process Log Viewer to view records from the Background Process Log file (SMXBLF). You can specify a particular Transaction GUID, allowing for quick research on a particular transaction or view the contents of the log file using various filters.
You can use the Search option for a specific transaction GUID and sort by the results “CID In” and “CID Out” order, allowing a return of a transaction GUID based on incoming or outgoing CIDs.
In the Filters section additional check boxes and prompts are available for specifying the browser results. You have these filter categories and options.
Destination: Directory, TCP/IP, Infor OS, Unspecified
Disposition: Incoming, Outgoing
Seq 0001: Indicate whether to display only records with a sequence number of 00001. This action displays only the first record of any possible record set, without showing all subsequent sequence number records for that first record. You can double click a record in the list box to display all subsequent sequence number records and uncheck the check box by default.
Events: Errors, Non-Errors
Date/Time: Start and End
API Name
Entity Key
This is a text search for the entered value in the Entity key column. If the specified text exists anywhere in the entity key of a record, the record is displayed. You cannot manually specify an entity key in this field, because the actual entity key may contain null characters that cannot be reproduced by typing. Null characters are masked with a space on the screen for readability. To filter on an entity key, you must select the entity from the records in the browser, then right-click to use the “Filter on this API Name and Entity Key” option for the line.
LID ( Logical ID)
In the line browser, this information is displayed for each record: Date/Time, Transaction GUID, Sequence number, Disposition (I-In, O-Out), Error Indicator(‘*’ or blank), Event Code, Event Code Description, , API Name, Entity, CID In, CID Out, LID, Generation, Destination path, and Message Memo. When you double click on a GUID line in the browser, all sequence numbers for the selected Transaction GUID are displayed.
The complete path to this program is System Management>System Dashboards Menu>Background Process Log Viewer.
These right-click options are available from the lines in the browser.
• Filter on this Transaction GUID
• Filter on this API Name and Entity Key
• Filter on this LID
When you specify one of the right-click options, the current filter entries are reset, the corresponding data indicated by the right click option selected will be entered into the appropriate field, the filter re-applied, and the list box reloaded.
See also
Viewing background process logs