DUMP in RPG (was: RPG enhancement suggestion)

["Dan Bale" <dbale@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>You mean most applications dont include a DUMP as a standard part of
their error processing! How do you fix errors in a client system?<<

A lot of interesting comments of how and why and when to use DUMP.  I've been
following this thread with interest.  In most all the environments I've been in,
specifying debug(*yes) or an H-spec with '1' in column 15 is done only in a
development/testing environment.  It is removed once it goes into production.
But, then, like others have suggested here (Hans?), these have always been
in-house situations where we can pick up the dump by responding to messages with
a 'D'.  Obviously it's a different thing altogether when you're a software house
with customers all over the place using software that you have to support.

On the basis of a suggestion (I think) I heard a while back in this list, I
searched for a "dump" API and found QPDLOGER.  The API is defined in "System API
Reference - OS/400 Problem Management APIs" (Document Number SC41-5869-01).
Examples using this program are found in "System API Programming" (Document
Number SC41-5800-00).  FWIW, we're running V4R2.

Has anyone used this API?  If so, how?

- Dan Bale





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