Debugging Using a Live Recording

Restriction:
This feature is only supported on the following platforms:
  • Red Hat Linux (x86 and x64)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP2 (x64 only)

Additional restrictions apply. For details, see the Reverse Debugging and Live Recording topic in the Known Issues and Restrictions > Problem Determination and Diagnostic Tools section of this documentation.

You can create a recording of your application execution, and then load the recording into the debugger to watch the execution path. To play the recording back, you must ensure that it is played on a machine that is using the same operating system as the one that it was created on.

As your program runs, the recorder captures everything that influences the running of the program, including all input, disk access, keyboard strokes, database connections and processes, interactions with the operating system, etc. After loading the recording into the debugger, you can move forwards and backwards seamlessly through the recording.