Merging trace entries

This step is necessary if the UTM application was running with more than one process during recording, a scenario that generally applies in the case of UTM applications running at medium or high load.

In this step, the binary BTRACE files of all UTM processes are sorted and entered in a common BTRACE file on the basis of their timestamps. This process step must always run on the same platform as step 1 (UPIC Capture).

On BS2000 systems, you do this using the BS2000 utility program SORT.

This step results in a sorted binary BTRACE file that contains all the trace entries in the correct temporal sequence.

You can use the provided BTRACE example procedure for sorting, see section "Sample procedures".