RE: Global variable search

Hi Mark,

You just made me cry. About 3 years ago I wrote an application that "waded through" the source code. We used it to produce our own XML documents. A web application uses this to replace written program documentation which was too often neglected and usually duplicated in the source.

But my first attempt with the PGMINFO(*PCML) parameter didn't quite work. Despite a pretty XML document being produced, I get an error *RNF0319 ( error generating information ) and the object is not created.
It seems I can't put a date field in a parameter list :

<data name="ANEDTDL" type="" length="10" usage="inputoutput" />
- <!-- Erreur : type de donn{es non admis (E) -->

Any idea why?

-----Message d'origine-----
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Mark S. Waterbury

I think you guys are all working too hard ... why not let the
compiler do the work for you?

Since at least V5R2, the ILE RPG IV compiler command has the
optional parameter PGMINFO(*PCML), which generates a PCML XML
file in the IFS, that you specify with the INFOSTMF parameter.

This should be a lot easier to read and parse, to find the "interface"
information -- the main procedure and its parameters, type,
length, decimal places, etc., versus trying to "wade through"
all of the RPG IV source code ... :-o