What is WID history logging?

History logging is primarily meant to aid debugging during development and also help IBM support people when working on issues. It's a capability that is configurable in WID (turned on by default) whose intent is to gather, at a coarse level, just enough information so that we can have a good idea of the steps that a user took that led to an error. Rotating logs are written in the user's workspace .metadata directory and are named widHistory_n.log. These logs are viewable in the Server Logs view within WID by navigating to the workspace and loading the logfiles from the workspace .metadata directory. To view the configurable properties, open WID | Preferences | Business Integration | Logging and Tracing, as shown in ...

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