RE: I seek overall advice.

It's been so long...is there a different command to create an RPG/II
program on an iSeries? I would think it would be CRTRPGPGM. All the
RPG/II syntax would still work as an RPG/III program, right?

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: I seek overall advice.
> From: Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, December 22, 2005 7:40 am
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I thought he was talking about RPG II, not RPG IV or, even, III.  There 
> is no DBGVIEW or such compile option for RPG II.  The only way that I 
> have found to debug our old RPG II programs is to use the ol' DEBUG 
> opcode.  So this does not appear to be an option here.
> 
> 
> That being said, there used to be companies that had utilities to 
> retrieve RPG source.  I cannot, however, recall the names.  I thought 
> that Softlanding had a tool that our consulting firm used during Y2K, 
> but I didn't see anything on their web site.  Must have been someone 
> else.  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 the 
> way the CL is compiled that affects its operational abilities, and it 
> may not be able to do CLLE's.  But, really, who is going to write a CLLE 
> if 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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