Deconstructing the Log File

The following sections examine in more detail each part of an FME log file.

Command Line Statement

At the very top of a log file appears the command line statement. This is the command that FME Workbench is using to run the translation:

Command-line to run this workspace:
    "C:\Program Files\FME2019\fme.exe" C:\FMEData2019\Workspaces\InstructorUse\DesktopAdv\4.01-FMEParameters.fmw
          --SourceDataset_MITAB "C:\FMEData2019\Data\Parks\Parks.tab"
          --DestDataset_ESRISHAPE "C:\FMEData2019\Output"

In terms of performance, this section doesn’t tell us much. However, it is useful to confirm which FME instance is running, particularly when you have several versions installed. Note that the version number in the above log is the folder where FME is installed; it's not necessarily the version number that's running.

This section also tells us what published parameters are in the workspace and what their values are.

Perhaps the most useful part of this section is that you can copy and paste this statement to run the workspace through a command line or using a batch file.