User Guide

90 Chapter 8: Managing Collections with the mkvdk Utility
4 A new partition is created, which includes an index and an attribute table.
5 Assist data is generated, which might include a spanning word list.
When problems occur during an operation, the mkvdk utility writes error messages to the system
log file (sysinfo.log). You can direct error and other messages to the console by using the mkvdk
command with the
-outlevel option. You can direct messages to a file of your choice by using
the
-loglevel and -logfile options.
The log file contains the following fields:
• Date
• Time
• Level
• Code
• Component
• Description
You can use the log file to view details about what happens during the collection creation process.
Use the mkvdk
-loglevel command and specify the numeric identifier for the message level you
want, as summarized in the following table:
To calculate the numeric parameter, add the numbers for the message types you want to include.
The default for both
-outlevel and -loglevel is 15, which selects fatal, error, warning, and
status messages (1+2+4+8).
Type Number
Fatal 1
Error 2
Warning 4
Status 8
Info 16
Verbose 32
Debug 64