RE: Regarding retrieving source from modules

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

Ken wrote:
>Are you saying that we should NOT compile with DBGVIEW(*LIST)???

No, of course not.  dbgview(*list) is very useful for debugging,
which is an exercise all of use programmers have to do sometimes.

I'm just saying please don't count on that as a source recovery
mechanism.  Recovery of source files should be the same procedure
as recovering any other data file.  You have those procedures in
place already (or at least you should have), so it's no big deal
to add your source files to your list of files in your regular
backups.  I don't want anyone to think that dbgview(*list) might
possibly be worth considering as a backup mechanism.

Cheers!  Hans


>
>Anyone who would ignore proper backup procedures because of DBGVIEW(*LIST)
>has got a lot more serious problems than just failing to properly backup
up
>their source.
>
>Besides, if people put their source files in their program libraries (as I
>recommended in a previous series of messages <G>) then if they are backing
>up their programs they would have to be making a special effort to not
>backup the source.  And if they aren't backing up the programs either,
they
>are eventually going to end up in really, really deep feces!!!
>["Let's keep the source and programs in the same library, but we don't
need
>to back it up because if we lose the programs, we just recompile them, and
>if we lose the source we just recover it from the programs!"]
>
>As noted in my message to Eric, we have DBGVIEW(*LIST) as the default, but
>we backup all of the program libraries every night along with the database
>libraries.



Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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