Re: RPG IV debugger

[ghockemeyer@xxxxxxxx (Gene Hockenmeyer)]

If you change your debugging view to *all, instead of *list or *source ...
you will always have the appropiated statement number ...

gene
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Bird <BBird@primeinc.com>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 1999 10:55 AM
Subject: RE: RPG IV debugger


>This is good stuff - exactly what we "gripe" about here.  However, does
>these PTF's also give us the source statement number when (Since we are
>quality people I should say IF) a ILE program errors and QSYSOPR gets a
>error message (Or even be listed in the dump would be nice).
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com
>> [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
>> Behalf Of Douglas Handy
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 8:37 PM
>> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>> Subject: Re: RPG IV debugger
>>
>>
>> Rick,
>>
>> > I do the same thing on a file I/O to avoid a million F10's
>>
>> Maybe you aren't aware that IBM addressed this starting with V4R3 and
>> PTF'd it back as far as V3R2 and V3R6.
>>
>> If you add H-spec keyword   Option( *NoDebugIO )   it will keep the
>> debugger from stopping on each field as it is moved from the buffer to
>> the field location.
>>
>> Also, the same PTF's add support for Option( *SrcStmt ) which causes
>> messages to refer to the source statement number instead of the
>> compiler listing number.  This also is helpful during StrDbg.
>>
>> I routinely add both to all my programs by specifying:
>>
>>      H  Option( *SrcStmt: *NoDebugIO )
>>
>> One caveat though: the PTF's add the support to the compiler but not
>> to the SEU syntax checking.  Therefore SEU will complain when you
>> enter the statement, even after the PTF's are applied.  Ignore the
>> error and compile it anyway.
>>
>> Here are the original PTF numbers for the various releases:
>>
>>
>>          Compiler (product 57xxRG1) | Runtime (product 57xxSS1)
>>          -------------------------- | ------------------------
>>  V3R2    SF46001                    | SF45788
>>  V3R6    SF45749                    | SF45430
>>  V3R7    SF46327                    | SF46321
>>  V4R1    (use V3R7 compiler + PTF)  | SF46462
>>  V4R2    SF45191                    | SF45189
>>
>> Enjoy.
>>
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