RE: Retreiving RPG source at version 7.1

On a similar note, we use the RTVSRC tool by Chris Stead when we've "misplaced" source code in a test library. It has been a life saver on more than one occasion.

Here's where to get the tool: http://www.pentontech.com/IBMContent/Documents/article/54224_179_RtvSrc.zip




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Hello all...

There was a bit of code done up by J.R. Friedman, listed at the site below, that permits the retrieval of RPG ILE source, assuming a create bind command with *LIST on the debug view parm.

http://search400.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-retrieve-the-RPGLE-source

We have it here for use in emergency and have used it once or twice. Works well. The article details were first published in February, 2004.


Have a good day.


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David,

It's my understanding that while it's possible to decompile OPM RPG
III, it's basically not possible to do so with ILE RPG IV...

Charles

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:15 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 8/24/2011 11:49 AM, ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

A development manager here had read something about an enhancement in i

7.1

that supported retrieving RPG source code from program objects (if they
were compiled a certain way). I can't find the documentation now that

he

read about it. Is anyone familiar with something of the sort, and if

so,

could you point me towards some type of link to read more about it?

If you compile a program with the *SOURCE debug view you can access the

source code listing ... but I don't think there is a way to extract that
from the object (unlike the RTVCLSRC command).

You might be able to reconstruct the source if you did a DMPOBJ on the

program and wrote a program to interpret the output.

There are 3rd party products that purport to be able to extract source

from a program. I've never tried them though.

david

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