This page contains all necessary steps to print to disk file, all received and transmitted data from Telnet server, formatted as an hexadecimal dump and correspondent characters.

Tracing Data Received from Server and Transmitted to it:

Tec3270 has an special function that allows to write to disk file, all data received from Telnet server, and data transmitted to it.

This function is specially useful for application error detection, like screens building and 3270 terminals specific commands, such as field attributes (Start Field -SF), field positioning (Set Buffer Address - SBA), and other commands and orders typical of 3270 terminals.

For activating the trace function, you should select 'Start Tracing' from options list presented when clicking on [Tools] menu item. Standard windows open file dialog will be shown for typing the name of the file, where traced data will be written.

This file can be viewed, or printed, using any regular editor program, like windows notepad.

For deactivating the trace function you should select 'Stop Tracing' from same place.