Re: Dumb debug question of the week.

On 12/21/05, Bob Anderson <banderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is a MAPICS User Exit program that is used to call other programs.
> Now
> All the Mapics stuff is interactive until you press the execute button and
> it goes out and does it's stuff then call the user exit. At that point I
> call a small program called DBGWAIT which pauses the user exit so that I
> can
> get into it and start debugging. It is still under control of the active
> session. I don't know any other way to get the user exit to go into debug
> without the pause.
>
>         These are all rpg400 programs so I can't use WDSC.


Ewww.  Well, this is way out of my realm of experience, but I have a few
other suggestions seeing that you still haven't had any other responses.
(Everyone must be out for Christmas vacation.)

1. Dumb question, I know, but are the RPG programs compiled with the
appropriate *SRCDBG or somesuch?  If they are OPM and the debugger is like
STRDBG which requires you to specify OPMSRC(*YES), are you taking that into
account?

2. User exit programs, IMO, are not the typical development fodder of most
AS400 shops.  Since you are using MAPICS, you may want to post your question
on the MAPICS list; perhaps someone there has "been there, done that".  I
know there are other packages that use user exit programs, and you might
want to post also on the SYSTEM21 list as well.

3. Never forget the power of google.  Might need to tweak your search a few
times, but I've been surprised at the results I've found from some rather
obscure topics.

Good luck!
- Dan