Re: Interactive Source Debugger - error?

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:40 12/05/1998 , Tim Truax wrote:
>Hi again,
>I tried this same debugging session last night, but this time (shame on me) I
>made sure I read back thru the joblog, at it appears that about 7 messages back
>from this message -  "XXXPGM is not in the debug environment" - there were more
>serious errors about a specific file that was referenced by the RPG program not
>being locateable in the *LIBL.  But what the heck gives with getting the
>unrelated and confusing/misleading msg above?  Why doesn't it just put the REAL
>message (like the one related to the actual problem) at the bottom of your
>screen?  Maybe I am too new to the AS400 to fully understand this phenomena, 

That's pretty typical. I've just accepted it. I don't think it's any better on 
other systems either. The problem is the complexity of delivering meaningful 
messages for error conditions that are pretty unpredictable. At least if you 
dig through the joblog, you can usually find out what the problem is.



Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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