Re: Want to see the DS raw, not just the subfields

That is not a BIF - it's a debug session keyword - it is used for all the languages, not just RPG.

To find all this information, put your cursor on the debug window command line and press F1 - then page down to the page that has the eval link - tab to it and press enter - you'll have far more to look at than you probably want.

Not sure where the error is coming from - non-displayable, perhaps.

You CAN do some limited calculations in the eval - not concatenation that I'm aware of, however.

Bug report time or DCR time, perhaps.

If you can send us or me the definition of the data structure, I can ask our support and see what the error means, also whence cometh it.

Good luck
Vern

On 11/22/2011 12:54 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Apparently you CAN eval the results of a bif. As Chuck points out, this
works
EVAL %substr(dsstr 5 9)
or
EVAL %substr(dsstr 5 9):x

You just can't put a ds name in the debugger like you could in RPG
EVAL %substr(dsrv0100 5 9)
CPF7E59-String type error occurred.
Cause . . . . . : The identifier in position 26 of the input buffer is
not a string.
Recovery . . . : Correct the identifier and enter the expression again
or use the :C formatting option to display the variable as a character
string. In the ILE System Debugger this is done by entering: EVAL
variable : C
And the help doesn't help with a conversion trick. IOW you can't
EVAL %substr(dsrv0100:C 5 9)
CPF7E15-Syntax error occurred.

Rob Berendt