Access the Diagnostic Data Collection menu in PROMON as follows:

  1. Start PROMON
  2. Select Advanced Options by entering R&D.
  3. Select Administrative Functions by entering 4.
  4. Select Diagnostic Data Collection by entering 14.

The following menu appears:

                OpenEdge Release 12 Monitor (R&D)
                Diagnostic Data Collection

        Current Diagnostic Data Collection Settings:

         1. Diagnostic directory:       ""
         2. Diagnostic field separator: ' '
         3. Diagnostic pause time:      0
         4. Diagnostic prefix value:    diagEvent_
         5. Diagnostic report format    csv

         6. Lock Table Overflow:       0: Data collection disabled
         7. BI Threshold:              0: Data collection disabled
         8. System Error:              0: Data collection disabled

         9. Collect enabled diagnostic data now


Enter a number, P, T, or X (? for help):

For items 1-5, change any value by entering the number, and entering a new value as prompted.

For items 6-8, the following menu prompts you to set a value for the data collection.
Enter 0: Disabled
      1: Summary
      2: Summary & Detailed
      3: Summary, Detailed & Protraces
    4-7: Proc invocation in combination w/chosen option 0 thru 3
   8-15: Report all enabled event collectors in combination w/chosen option 0 thru 4
 (-15 to 15):
Note that negative values collect the same amount of data, but only in the case of a fatal error that will bring down the database.

For item 9, the data collection executes immediately, and does not respect the pause time value.