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Alan,

If the auditors require an audit trail of STRDBG usage that shows all debug command usage (eval, etc) and cannot be altered then I (as a vendor) have an application that, with some tweaks, could do that.

Bruce
http://www.brucevining.com/

Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for the info David, and I have passed this e-mail onto our system
guys, but there is one thing that bothers me.
My original request was to be able to use STRDBG against CLP and RPGIII
programs. The last sentence of what you cut and pasted , "Specifying
OPTIMIZE(*FULL) for OPM programs has no effect; a diagnostic message will
be signaled." will probably mean this is NOT a way around my problem
Thanks anyway



Alan Shore
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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/02/2008 01:10:10 PM:

Shannon ODonnell wrote:
Yeah...but STRDBG CAN! Change production data. All you have to do is
use
the command EVAL PGMVAR = NEWVALUE while the program is running
under
debug and you've changed the value of the variable.

I'm not 100% sure about this ... but if you optimize a program to level
30 or higher, you can view variable contents but *NOT* change them.

From the CHGPGM command help ...

*FULL or 30
More optimization is performed in addition to those performed at
optimization level 20 (*BASIC). Variables cannot be changed but can
be displayed while the program is being debugged. However, the
displayed value of the variable during debugging may not be its
actual value. Specifying OPTIMIZE(*FULL) for OPM programs has no
effect; a diagnostic message will be signaled.

david


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