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

Rory

I agree with the FIND thing - it's always bugged me (oops, slip of the brain there!).

If you want, you can enter a requirement on the COMMON site to this effect. Requirements are under the community tab there - you do need a COMMON login but not a membership. Some of us on these lists are or have been on the advisory council that vets these requirements. IBM listen to these because they are looked at by a user council, not just submitted by individuals as DCRs are - the latter are also important, so please keep doing those.

There might be support for such a requirement in the WRKLNK interface - when you display an IFS file, you can enter a value on the command line and hit F16 - it finds the value if it's there.

Another irritation in debug is using the TOP command - if you are not on the command line when you press enter, it doesn't do anything - maybe that's true of all the commands - function key versions don't require that positioning, of course.

HTH
Vern

On 11/22/2011 1:29 PM, Rory Hewitt wrote:

If I could change one thing about the green-screen debugger, it would be
the ability to simply enter a string on the command line and press F16 to
find it - right now, you have to enter 'FIND string', press Enter to find
the first occurrence and only then can you press F16 to find subsequent
occurrences. Sucky non-SEU-like behavior, if you ask me.

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Rory Hewitt<rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I assume Joe P was talking about being able to view %EOF, %ERROR, %FOUND
(and ideally, edit them, obviously). Perhaps also being able to position
the cursor on either of the '%date' bits of the following line and get a
value returned:

if %date(myField)> %date();

As you have found out, debug does have its own version of a %SUBSTR
built-in-function, but not any others (except the *massively* useful
%LOCALVARS).