Re: I seek overall advice. -- RPG400-L

I thought he was talking about RPG II, not RPG IV or, even, III. Thereis no DBGVIEW or such compile option for RPG II. The only way that Ihave found to debug our old RPG II programs is to use the ol' DEBUGopcode. So this does not appear to be an option here.

That being said, there used to be companies that had utilities toretrieve RPG source. I cannot, however, recall the names. I thoughtthat Softlanding had a tool that our consulting firm used during Y2K,but I didn't see anything on their web site. Must have been someoneelse. But the tool does (did) exist.

As for the CL, the RTVCLSRC command should be able to retrieve /recreate the source. I don't know if there's anything special about theway the CL is compiled that affects its operational abilities, and itmay not be able to do CLLE's. But, really, who is going to write a CLLEif he's still using RPG II?!




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michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Good point, unless the programs were compiled with DBGVIEW(*LIST). Then
I believe a copy of the source is stored in the program object. /COPY's
can be expanded too, depending on the compiler options.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: I seek overall advice.
From: david.kahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, December 22, 2005 6:08 am
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Michael Ryan <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The missing/unknown source is a tough one. You might be able to
put the programs in debug and read the code and try and match it
up.

That's not really going to help. The source debugger works by reading the
source member. It doesn't re-create the source from the program object. For
all practical purposes the programs that do not have source should be
regarded as permanently frozen.

--
Dave...


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