Files and File Locations

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The following tables contain the names, locations, and a brief description of the files created and maintained by Rational Runtime Analysis tools.

Rational Product Specific Files:

File Type

Filename

Location

Preferences

purify.ini
quantify.ini
coverage.ini

<user profile>\Application Data\
Rational\<
product>\

Windows Vista: <user profile>\AppData\
Roaming\Rational\<
product>\

Settings

purifyw_pure.ini
quantifyw_pure.ini
coveragew_pure.ini

<user profile>\Application Data\
Rational\<
product>\

Windows Vista: <user profile>\AppData\
Roaming\Rational\<
product>\

Global Filters

purifyw_exe.pft
quantifyw_exe.
qft
coveragew_exe.
cft

<user profile>\Application Data\
Rational\<
product>\

Windows Vista: <user profile>\AppData\
Roaming\Rational\<
product>\

 

Cache directory

 

C:\Program Files\IBM\RationalPurifyPlus\cache *

Instrumentation Errors

<cachefilename>.
warnings

C:\Program Files\IBM\RationalPurifyPlus\cache\ *

 

User Program Specific Files:

File Type

Filename

Default Location

Settings for<exename>

<exename>_pure.ini

<exename> directory *

Log File for<exename>

<exename>_pure.log

<exename> directory *

Filters for<exename>

<exename>_exe.pft
<exename>_exe.
qft
<exename>_exe.
cft
<exename>_exe.
mft

<exename> directory *

Saved Data Files
(Binary Format)

<exename>.pfy
<exename>.
pmy
<exename>.
pcy
<exename>.
qfy
<exename>.
cfy

<exename> directory

Saved Data File
(Text Format)

<exename>.txt (or any user specified extension)

<exename> directory

Backup File

<Modulename>.
original

<Modulename> directory

Files created for selective instrumentation

<Modulename>.csel
<
Modulename>.qsel
<
Modulename>.uninst

<Modulename> directory

* = you can define the user environment variable RATL_PQC_PROFILE_DIR to specify a new default location. Use this variable if the default locations for saved files are protected, and you do not have administrative privileges.

Notes:

§      <product> = one of "Purify", "Quantify", or "Coverage".

§      <user profile> = system-returned location for your Windows user profile.

§      Some locations are different when running on Windows Vista. The differences are noted in the table.

§      When you specify a path in the RATL_PQC_PROFILE_DIR user environment variable, files and directories affected by this variable are saved as follows:

§    Product cache directories:
<RATL_PQC_PROFILE_DIR>\Rational\<product>\cache\

§    <exename> files: <RATL_PQC_PROFILE_DIR>\Rational\<product>\PUTs\<munged_<exename>

where <munged_<exename> is a folder name that consists of a modified form of the full path and filename of the program or executable you are running.

For example, for HelloWorld.exe in the following location:

C:\MyProjects\HelloWorld.exe

the folder name would be:

C__MyProjects_HelloWorld.exe

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