RE: Viewing hex data

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I have a program that is bombing and the
>parameter values are appearing in
>hex.  For example:
>CALL PGM(lib/pgm) PARM(X'C8C940E3C8C5D9C5')

>Any suggestions as to how I can view the
>value of the parameters in a timely
>manner?

Hi Aaron!
  You can pass the parameters into a program that converts the hex back into
EBCDIC.  Add a display file to this, cut & paste and you should be good to
go.

h debug dftactgrp(*no) actgrp('QILE') bnddir('QC2LE')
 * dbgview(*list)

 *  The following are the C defintions for the MI function cvtch
 *    - refer to the MI Library Reference on the ILE C bookshelf for f

 *     void cvtch (_SPCPTR receiver,
 *                 _SPCPTRCN source,
 *                 int size););

D C2H             Pr                  ExtProc('cvtch')
D  RecPtrP                        *   Value
D  SrcPtrP                        *   Value
D  SizeP                        10I 0 Value

D H2C             Pr                  ExtProc('cvthc')
D  RecPtrP                        *   Value
D  SrcPtrP                        *   Value
D  SizeP                        10I 0 Value

D RecPtr          S               *   INZ
D SrcPtr          S               *   INZ

D OutStrD         S             20    INZ
D InpStrD         S             10    INZ('F1F2F3')
D Size            S             10I 0 INZ

C                   Eval      RecPtr=%Addr(OutStrD)
C                   Eval      SrcPtr=%Addr(InpStrD)
C                   Eval      Size=%len(%trim(InpStrD))

C                   CALLP     C2H(RecPtr :
C                                 SrcPtr :
C                                 Size)

C     InpStrD       Dsply
C     OutStrD       Dsply

C                   Movel(P)  OutStrD       InpStrD
C                   Eval      OutStrD=*BLANKS
C                   Eval      Size=%len(%trim(InpStrD))*2

C                   CALLP     H2C(RecPtr :
C                                 SrcPtr :
C                                 Size)

C     InpStrD       Dsply
C     OutStrD       Dsply

C                   SetOn                                          LR
  --buck