RE: Calling *SRVPGMs from JAVA - How to DEBUG?

["Gary L Peskin" <garyp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What release of OS/400 are you on? 

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> [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Wolcott
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> Subject: Calling *SRVPGMs from JAVA - How to DEBUG?
> 
> Our biggest issue is debugging the *SRVPGM procedures.  How 
> do we do that?  I can't figure out where the *SRVPGM is 
> running.  The JAVA program prints the job info it gets, but I 
> can't always find that job and even if I do there is nothing 
> useful there.  If I have the C use
> printf()  I can't find the output.  Anyone know where the 
> output goes and how to debug this?
>  
> We have a JAVA program that needs to call a *SRVPGM that 
> contains *MODULEs written in C, CL and RPG.  Calling the C is 
> not too bad, except we seem to have issues passing char 
> variables.  We've got around it so far by just passing them 
> as char * instead, but we have to write wrappers for the 
> procedures that expect plain char parameters.
>  
> We also seem to have found that whatever job the *SRVPGM is 
> running in on the iSeries does not seem to have a *LIBL.  We 
> had to write a procedure that calls an existing CL that sets 
> the appropriate *LIBL.
> This is mainly an issue with the RPG, since the C can specify 
> the library as a variable at run time.  
>  
>