RE: Debug Mode.

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Mangavalli, Ramanujam wrote:
>
> Well, if the program is in debug mode, I want to send certain messages into
> the job log. Say some kind of performance information/SQL Statements/etc...
>

This is what I use the /if defined, /if not defined, etc compiler
directives are for.   You can include code that is compiled into the
program based on whether certain symbols are defined.

For example, let's say you had a subprocedure called "Log" that you
wanted to call only when you are debugging a program.   You could
put:

     c/if defined(EXTRA_LOGGING)
     c                   callp     Log('SQL statement: ' + SqlStmt)
     c/endif

into your RPG source, and then when you want to debug the program
you'd compile it like this:

    CRTBNDRPG MYPGM DEFINE(EXTRA_LOGGING)

but, when you compile it for use in production, you'd omit the
"DEFINE(EXTRA_LOGGING)" so that the compiler would ignore those
statements.