Preferences
Topics include:
Please see the online documentation for the additional
preference information.
Opening the PTP Preferences
To open the Preferences dialog, select:
Next, expand Parallel Tools in the list of preferences
pages on the left side and choose the component's preferences you wish
to change. The following image shows all available components:

Parallel Tools Preference Page
This is the main preferences page for PTP. Available preferences
are:
- Temporary output directory
- Temporary directory to use to save process output
- Console buffer size (lines)
- Number of lines of output from each process to save (0 means
infinite)
Debug Preferences Page (Parallel Tools > Debug)
This is the main parallel debugger preferences page. These are
preferences that apply to any parallel debugger.

Default settings
These preferences control some debugger default behavior
- Show full paths on breakpoint (default disabled)
- Use the full path to the source file when displayed in the
debugger Breakpoint view
- Register process 0 by default (default enabled)
- Will register process 0 with the Debug view when the
parallel debugger starts. This is required to enable Eclipse to switch
automatically to the PTP Debug perspective when a debugger
breakpoint is hit.
Communication
These are preferences relating to the communication between
Eclipse and the external parallel debugger. They do not normally need to
be changed.
- Command timeout (ms) (default 60000)
- This specifices the period Eclipse waits after sending a
command to the external debugger. If no response is received the debug
session will be terminated.
Variable
These variables control the action of the debugger to update
variable information.
- The debugger is suspended (default enabled)
- The debugger allows variable values to be displayed in tooltip
popups when the mouse hovers over a process in the Parallel
Debug view. Enabling this option will update all the values each time
the process is suspended. When this option is disabled, the value will
be updated when the tooltip popup is displayed.
- Job or Set is changed (default disabled)
- Variable values will be updated when the current job or set is
changed.
SDM (Scalable Debug Manager) Preferences (Parallel Tools >
Debug > SDM)
These are preferences for controlling the behavior of the
scalable debug manager, which is server component of the parallel
debugger. They do not normally need to be changed.

Debugger launch preferences
These preferences control how the debugger behaves when it is
launched. They do not normally need to be altered.
- Backend debugger (default gdb-mi)
- The name of the backend debugger to use when debugging the
application. This is an internal name known by the SDM, not the name of
the debugger itself. Currently only gdb using the MI mode is supported.
- Path to gdb executable (default empty)
- If the backend debugger (e.g. gdb) is not located in a standard directory
then this field can be used to specify an alternate location.
- Path to SDM executable (default empty)
- Sets the preferred path to the SDM executable. This will be used
to populate the Debug tab on the launch configuration.
SDM debugging options
These preference allow the SDM operation to be debugged. They are
normally only used by PTP developers.
- Enable SDM debugging
- This turns on debugging of the SDM. Additional options can be
set to control the type and amount of debugging information that is
generated.
- Enable SDM client debugging
- Enables debugging of the SDM Eclipse client. Additional
options can be set to control the type and amount of debugging
information that is generated.
External Tools Preferences Page (Parallel Tools > External Tools)
This is a category for configuring external tools that are
provided using the ETFw extensions.
For more information see the ETFw wiki page.

External Tool Configuration
These preferences are used to configure ETFw
- Tool Definition File (default empty)
- The name of a file containing the ETFw XML configuration.
Feedback View (Parallel Tools > External Tools > Feedback View)
The Feedback view preferences page handles cases where extensions are installed that utilize the
Feedback view.

Preferences for Feedback View
These preferences are used to configure the feedback view. See
Feedback view for more information.
Parallel Language Development Tools (PLDT) Preferences
See the help for PLDT
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