Re: Why upgrade from WDSC to RDi?

The one big disadvantage of SEP debugging (in my opinion) is that it won't remember any added sources.

Our sources are on the development system, and if I want to debug a program on the production system, I have to add - every time - the source member on the other system.

I understood that this was on the to-do list of the WDSCi team (?).


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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Why upgrade from WDSC to RDi?

"Okay, what is SEP?"

Service Entry Point - as noted by another respondent.

This is the only way to debug programs nowadays, and this is especially
true for batch jobs since SEP does all the service job tasks
automatically. It also allows you to step in and out of modules &
procedures too without having to register each object in a 'debug
mode'.

Just last week I found that while I was editing a source member, I
could
set a breakpoint (just for the heck of it - and I wasn't in debug
mode). I
tested the program in debug and sure enough the program stopped at my
breakpoint.

A small thing but its an advantage in that I can set break points while
editing or reviewing code which means I don't have to remember all my
'attention points' when I do get into debug mode.

And SEP will remember your monitored variables and breakpoints so that
if
I need to debug the same program in the future those debug properties
are
still intact.

And the monitor view lets you observe all your variables.

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