Re: Recover source from OPM RPG program object with OPTION(*SRCDBG) s pecified?

Tom

I am speaking under correction,
but I do believe that there was a company whom reverse engineered object 
code back to RPG,
but it was not cheap.  I think they advertised in News/400.

hope that helps
kmh

At 01:54 PM 1/10/2001, you wrote:
>Through an error using our Aldon CMS system one of our programmers deleted
>the wrong source member while resolving a conflict.  The operations folks
>now tell us the developer's library was last saved on 10/19/00 due to the
>job scheduler entry being put on hold then and never subsequently released.
>Operations has dutifully been mounting tapes, initializing them, removing
>them the next morning and then storing the *BLANK tape with an offsite
>storage vendor.  (The execution of the operations folks is now scheduled
>too, pending Dubya's pulling the switch on 'old sparky.')
>
>Question:  Does anyone know of a way to recover the source or decompile the
>program object given that it's an OPM RPG object with OPTION(*SRCDBG)
>specified?
>
>TIA
>
>Tom Westdorp
>AS/400 Senior Programmer/Analyst
>
>IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Programmer
>IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer
>Certified Master RPG IV Programmer
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