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Frame Information

The transaction detail dialog displays information about a frame that is selected in the path graph. The frame information displays in the lower portion of the transaction detail dialog.

The frame information contains the following tabs:

• Frame
• Request
• Response
• Log Messages
• XML
• Exception
• Payload
• SQL Summary

The Frame tab and the Log Messages tab appear for all frame types.

Frame

The Frame tab shows the metadata values and the location values of the selected frame. The following details are listed:

Frame Meta Data

• Name: The name of the frame.
• Tags: Any frame tags that are associated with the frame.
• Category: The category of the frame.
• Start time: The time at which the frame began running.
• Wall time: How much time it took to run the frame from start to finish. Also known as root frame response time.
• ID: The unique frame ID
• Parent ID: The parent frame ID of the current frame.

Location Values

• Host: The name of the computer on which the frame ran.
• Agent: The name of the agent which captured the frame.
• Thread name: The thread name that the frame is running.
• Method: The java methods captured in the frame
• Session: Session ID of the session this frame is associated with.

If the execution time for a frame is so low that it rounds down to zero, the value 0 ms is displayed.

Request Tab

The Request tab displays the actual request that the selected frame sent. This tab appears only for non-JMS and non-JDBC frames.

If a WebSphere MQ transaction includes a binary payload, the Request tab displays a human-readable version of the payload. The nontext characters are removed. You can view the original binary payload in the XML tab.

Response Tab

The Response tab displays the actual response that the selected frame received. This tab appears only for non-JMS and non-JDBC frames.

If a WebSphere MQ transaction includes a binary payload, the Response tab displays a human-readable version of the payload. The nontext characters are removed. You can view the original binary payload in the XML tab.

Log Messages Tab

The Log Messages tab contains any log messages. The following details are listed:

• Level of information
• The logger name (if any)
• The text of the log message

By default, the minimum level of log messages is Warning. To change the minimum level, configure the Java logging level property.

You can configure this property from the Agents window of the DevTest Portal. The property appears in the Settings tab.

To sort the columns, click the drop-down arrow in a column heading and select Sort Ascending or Sort Descending. To show or hide columns, click the drop-down arrow in a column heading, point to Columns, and select or clear the check boxes.

XML Tab

The XML tab displays the raw XML of the instrumentation response in the frame. This tab appears for all frames other than JDBC frames.

The XML tab is additive. The frames to the right contain less information than the frames on the left. The first frame contains the complete response.

Exception Tab

If the frame contains an exception, the Exception tab displays the stack trace.

This feature has the following prerequisites:

• The capture level of the Exception protocol must be set to Full Data for the agent.
• The Capture all the supported exception frames property must be enabled for the agent. To access this property in the Settings tab, select the Transactions category.

Payload Tab

The Payload tab displays the JMS payload. This tab appears only for JMS frames.

SQL Summary Tab

The SQL Summary tab provides a summary of the SQL information. This tab appears only for JDBC frames.

The following details are listed:

• A sequential identifier that is assigned to each SQL statement
• SQL statement
• Number of rows that were returned
• Number of invocations
• Average time (milliseconds)
• Total time (milliseconds)

Clicking the SQL statement displays the results.

Double-clicking the SQL statement opens a dialog that displays the entire statement.

To sort the columns, click the drop-down arrow in a column heading and select Sort Ascending or Sort Descending. To show or hide columns, click the drop-down arrow in a column heading, point to Columns, and select or clear the check boxes.