Log Files

Following execution of a clash set, you can check whether the process is successful by interrogating the log files that are generated. The log files for a clash set run are created in a sub directory under the directory referenced by your TEMP environment variable. The most reliable method to determine your TEMP directory is to ‘echo’ the TEMP environment variable setting in a Windows command window: echo %temp%. Alternatively, open a Windows Explorer session with the TEMP path from the Start>Run… dialog. Once you have determined the location for your temporary system files, you will find the files in the directory: Pclam_’project code’_’windows_username’_’clash_set_number’

There are five files generated by the clash set, and a series of output files; one for each checked element. The names and purposes of the files are as follows:

pclam.fin – this file will contain the message ‘OK’ if the clash set processed without error. If an errors occurred during the desclash execution, then the Marine error message text is written to this file.

pclam.log – this file is the main log file and contains messages to indicate the processing of each check element. The foot of the file contains the message ‘Normal Termination’ if the clash set completed successfully.

pclam.mon – this file contains a detailed set of messages and time stamps to indicate duration of each stage of processing and loading of clash output files into the Clash Manager database.

pclam.pmlmac – this is the pml macro executed by the clash set to generate the clash output files

pclam_check.pmlmac – this is the check macro called by pclam.pmlmac that performs the clash check processing in Desclash.

pclam_nnnn.OUT - this is the output file generated for each checked element.