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

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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