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RE: WDSC/RDi Debugger and global variables

Vern,

I, too, like the iSeries Graphical Debugger. Sharon Hoffman wrote an article a year or two ago for System i News that got me started with it. She points to an article or two that Scott Klement wrote on it, too. Wish I could recall the articles titles or dates, but I can't. Scott is on the list, though, so he could step in here. There may even be something in the archives that reference the articles.

I didn't know STRDBG would go to the graphical debugger if the latter was running. Just tried it; kind of neat, but then I don't have any debugger running unless I already have something that I want to debug. Nice, though.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:13 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: WDSC/RDi Debugger and global variables

Hi Birgitta

There is a 3rd option for debugging - the System Debugger in jt400. I
was told that it has a different development team from the WDSC
debugger, but they look very much the same. Anyhow, I find that I can
make the System Debugger work almost all the time. The WDSC debugger had
defeated me a couple years ago, and I've never tried it again. I really
like the System Debugger, although I will still use STRDBG - especially
on a customer machine where I can't expect to make them set it up for
the graphical ones. I can even do SEP breakpoints on the green screen,
almost effortlessly!!

You can get information on it at

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v6r1m0/topic/rzamq/rzamqmain.htm

If you have the graphical debugger running on your PC, STRDBG will fire
it up instead of the green screen debugger.

HTH
Vern

Birgitta Hauser wrote:
Hi,

May be this is not quite the correct forum, but I hope here are also some
guys who use the WDSc/RDi Debugger for RPG and can point me to the right
direction.

I need to debug CGI programs and called procedures. To debug I use the
WDSC-Debugger (Version 7.1).
Unfortunately my colleague works with exported procedures and functions, but
defines almost everything globally.
In this way if the procedures are not called in a predefined sequence, the
procedures may fail or deliver wrong results because the global variables
are not yet filled correctly. (I do not want to start a discussion about
global and local variables, I have it already here ;)).

When debugging with the WDSC/RDi debugger I can see the content of my local
variable, but I didn't find how to see the content of the global variables.
Can someone give me a tip, how to see the content of my global variables?
(Or do I really go back to STRSRVJOB and STRDBG, which is quite annoying.)

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." (Les
Brown)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." (Derek Bok)
"What is worse than training your staff and losing them? Not training them
and keeping them!"


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Von: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im
Auftrag von Luis Rodriguez
Gesendet: Tuesday, 29. September 2009 05:21
An: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Betreff: Re: Problems User define edit codes

Stephen,

Forgot to ask: Did you do a SAVE/RESTORE of the edit code
(QSYS/QEDIT8, IIRC) or did you just copy the info as you saw it on the
older iSeries?

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries



On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Brown, Stephen GLARC
<Stephen.Brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Think I'll need to - I'll let you know how I get on.


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Behalf Of Luis Rodriguez

Sent: 28 September 2009 22:30
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Problems User define edit codes


Stephen,

In Spain (and the rest of the EU) a comma (,) is used for a decimal point.

I did some tests with a small DSPF and got some error when trying to display
a field when the DECPNT parameter had a 'N'.

Do you still have access to the old iSeries? Could you recompile the DSPF

to a temp file and try to replicate the errors there? Maybe there was a
change in either the source code or in the edit code definition...

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries



On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Brown, Stephen GLARC
<Stephen.Brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That's ok it my first time dealing with them.

That's why I decided to copy the objects over from the old box rather
than recreate then to make sure I had same definitions. The N does
look odd but again I just took it as it exists so therefore this must
have been asked for and is correct. I do know it's for our Spanish
users but that is all. I thought maybe the N stood for something like
*NONE but it doesn't appear to. Note, field was originally 9,2 but has
just changed to 11,2 - the edit code seems to work for both
definitions on our old box.


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Rodriguez
Sent: 28 September 2009 21:29
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Problems User define edit codes


Stephen,

My apologies if I'm insistent on the syntax part. I have done some
tests here and I have not found any problems but, Did you check if the
INTMASK and FRACMASK parms have the proper length? It seems to me that
the INTMASK is little long (they should be 9 and 2 spaces,
respectively).

Also, just curious, Why a 'N' as a decimal point?

It has been a long time since I last worked with User defined edit
codes, so I must been missing a lot of possibilities.

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries



On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Brown, Stephen GLARC <Stephen.>
wrote:

Yes I copied the objects from the old machine to the new one to make
sure.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Rodriguez
Sent: 28 September 2009 18:02
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Problems User define edit codes


Stephen,

Are you sure that your edit code def. is the same in both machines?
It could be that your edit masks differ in size...

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries



On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Brown, Stephen GLARC
<Stephen.Brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Can anyone assist ?
We have just migrated to a news iSeries machine running V5R4M0.
Previous was running V5R3M0. The DSPF compiled ok on previous
version with FT03 marked change to field size included but didn't
compile on new box. The only difference I am aware of is the change
to OS. All other aspects are the same i.e code and edit code
definitions. I have changed the edit code description to see if this
makes a difference but no joy.

DSPFFD extract of compiled DSPF on Prev box
CHKAMT ZONED 11 2 11 58 Output 7 67
Field text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Cheque Amount Keyboard
shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Y Editing Information Edit code .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 8 Compile failure on New box 1640 FT03
A*********** CHKAMT 9Y 2O 7 69TEXT('Cheque Amount') 1641 FT03 A
CHKAMT 11Y 2O 7 67TEXT('Cheque Amount') 1650 A EDTCDE(8)
* CPD7520-* .
* CPD7528-*
CPD7520 20 1 Message . . . . : Keyword ignored because of error in list
of values.
CPD7528 20 1 Message . . . . : Number of decimal replace positions not
valid.

EDTD Definition
Display Edit Description

Edit description . . . . . . . : 8

Integer mask . . . . . . . . . : 0
Decimal point character . . . : N
Fraction mask . . . . . . . . :
Fill character . . . . . . . . :
Currency symbol . . . . . . . :
Edit zero values . . . . . . . : *YES
Negative status characters . . :
Positive status characters . . :
Left constant characters . . . :
Right constant characters . . :
Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Spanish editing w


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