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Jon,

As one of Rory's employers customers, I would love it if Rory shipped all his code as debuggable :-)

Crispin.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: Optimize *FULL


>> However, using DBGVIEW(*LIST) (or DBGVIEW(*ALL), for that matter) goes
against everything that Aaron (like me) is trying to do - to make his
production objects (which he ships to *external* customers) more secure.

No argument - but in order to debug when you use *SOURCE you have to put the source on the target machine. I would argue that that is even less secure.
The scenario I would propose is to:

a) Compile with *LIST
b) Produce copy of *PGM for distribution
c) Remove debug capability completely from the copy
d) Ship the copy
e) In the event that I need to debug on the production system copy the debug-
able version to the system.
f) When debugging complete reinstate the no-debug version or (simpler)
remove the debug capability from the production copy.

Surely this is safer than having a source on the production box?  The only
potential exposure of my code is during the period when I'm actively
debugging and someone would have to know how to resurrect a source from the
debug-able version of the program.


Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com

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