Re: Use of DUMP in production programs, WAS: RPG enhancement suggestion -- RPG400-L

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boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:

> How about a quick vote on some alternatives:
>
> 1) Don't show unreferenced fields on dump.
> 2) Keyword DEBUG(*ALLOW) which would allow the
>    DUMP opcode to run, but unreferenced fields
>    wouldn't be extracted.
> 3) Opcode DUMP *FORCE to force a dump to occur
>    even if DEBUG(*YES) is not coded.  (Again,
>    unreferenced fields would not be extracted.)
>

I vote for 3) to keep it all in one place (the C-spec).

- Dan Bale





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