From fix pack 8 (OS/2 3.0) and fix pack 91 (OS/2 2.11) the system trace was enhanced to provide improved time-stamp information. Each trace records is time-stamped in hours, minutes, seconds and 1/100 seconds. The trace logging start and stop times are also logged and displayed by the TRACEFMT command.

The spare bytes between the end of the STDA header and first trace record have been reserved for storing trace start and stop times. These are of the following format:

  STDA

   ÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
    ³y y³m³d³h³n³s³c³Y Y³M³D³H³N³S³C³TRACE RECORDS ....
   ÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
    28              30              38

Where:

yymdhnsc is the TRACE ON date and time in years, months, days, hours, seconds and 100th seconds.

YYMDHNSC is the TRACE OFF date and time in years, months, days, hours, seconds and 100th seconds.

The time-stamp field of a trace record in now 4 bytes and contains in addition hours and minutes. The following diagram compares the different trace records of both old and new formats:

  Old format with time-stamp:

            ÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄ¿
                Optional Data ³s³h³f³Pid³Min³Len³Maj³
            ÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÙ
              -8      -4       0 1 2 3   5   7   9



  Old format without time-stamp:

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                Optional Data ³f³Pid³Min³Len³Maj³
            ÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÙ
              -8      -4       0 1   3   5   7



  New format with time-stamp:

            ÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄÂÄ¿
                Optional Data ³H³M³s³h³f³Pid³Min³Len³Maj³
            ÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÁÄÙ
              -8      -4       0 1 2 3 4 5   7   9   a

where:

Optional Data

is trace data of length specified by the Len field.

is time in hours.

is time in minutes.

is time in seconds.

is time in 1/100 seconds.

is the process id under which the entry was logged. Zero implies interrupt time.

is the minor code.

is the length of the optionally traced data.

is the major code.

Notes:

The format of the buffer used by TRACEFMT has not changed. Thus, as long as a correct header is appended to the extracted STDA then the new TRACEFMT will format the traced data.

The new TRACEFMT will also format trace data of the older format.

STDAs of the new and old formats may be distinguished by the value of the start offset in the STDA header:

For the old format this is 0x000e.

For the new format this is 0x001e.