Re: MI program unable to locate job - need assistance

On 20/05/2008, at 4:43 PM, Paul Jackson wrote:

how do set up the debuggable identifiers?

Rename all the variables that start with a period. Really dumb idea-- even though your code only uses the period in basing pointers. The MI compiler (CRTPG instruction actually) allows the caller to specify a character for which all variables that start with that character will not be added to the symbol table therefore can't be referenced by debug. The QPRCRTPG API sets that value to "." hence the admonition in the API documentation that "Symbols that begin with a period (.) are not inserted into the program's symbol table and may not be referred to by the i5/OS debug function."

Easiest fix is to simply replace the period in variable names and recompile. You can't just remove it because you'll get collisions on variable names. I would just do a global search and replace of . with @ (this will change branch-point names too which is undesirable but not problematic.

Also I couldn't figure out how to display the value of a pointer (at least using dsppgmvar)

Just display the pointer variable name. For example, given the pointer declaration:
DCL SYSPTR @WCBT00 DEF(OWN-PCO) POS(433);
then:
dsppgmvar @WCBT00

will show:
Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : @WCBT00
Pointer type . . . . . . . . . . . . : SYP
Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 0011111100010000
Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : QWCBT00
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : QSYS
Object type . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *WCBT


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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