Determines whether or not the profiler is enabled. When set to TRUE, the profiler is activated and initialized. The default value is FALSE.

Data type: LOGICAL

Access: Readable/Writable

Applies to: PROFILER system handle

When the profiler is first enabled, all the active procedures are registered and assigned module identifiers. An active procedure is any persistent procedure or any procedure on the procedure call stack. For each active procedure, except those that are part of Developer Studio, a PROFILER:LISTINGS setting of TRUE also generates listing files. In addition, a TRUE setting records coverage analysis information. To generate listing files or coverage analysis information, set PROFILER:LISTINGS and PROFILER:COVERAGE attributes to TRUE before setting PROFILER:ENABLED to TRUE. As long as profiling is enabled, Progress maintains a registry of the procedures that executed, regardless of whether profiling is turned on or off (controlled by the setting of the PROFILER:PROFILING attribute). When profiling is disabled (by setting PROFILER:ENABLED to FALSE), Progress writes accumulated profiling data to the output file, and then discards the registry of procedures that executed.