Invoking Profiler

To start Profiler from the Studio Enterprise Edition for UNIX command prompt, use the following command:

cobprof filenames directives

where the parameters are:

filenames

One or more files containing compact Profiler output. Profiler always searches for a file with the filename extension .ipf; if you specify any other extension, it is ignored.

directives

One or more of the directives that control the operation of Profiler. To specify a directive to Profiler, you must precede it with a plus sign (+). You can precede each directive with a plus sign; alternatively, you can specify one at the start of a list of directives.

Directives must be separated by one or more spaces. Where a Profiler directive takes a parameter, you can enclose the parameter either in quotation marks or in parentheses. If you use either of these, however, you must escape them using the backslash character ( \).

Profiler creates a file with the extension .prf, with the same basename as the .ipf file. If you profile more than one program at one time, Profiler output for all programs is appended to the output file for the first program, that is filename1 .prf.