Re: How to display which debug views are available. -- RPG400-L

Thanks Bruce, Jon and Mark (who replied off list).

To give a little background on what I'm doing. I'm writing a trace utility for tracing program execution. As you(s) mentioned I do this by calling the Debugger APIs. When I call the QteRetrieveModuleViews and the *LISTING, *SOURCE or *COPY views are not available I can not "trace" the execution of this module.

I was wondering if there was a way, before calling the QteRetrieveModuleViews in my trace utility, to check if I should even attempt to trace the program or give the user a message that the program needs to be recompiled with DBGVIEW(*LIST/*SOURCE/*COPY)

Wait, Vern just replied...

Thanks,

Rob

On 12/2/2018 10:00 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

Bruce beat me to it - the debug APIs are the way to go. That is what RDi uses under the hood.

There's a decent explanation of the way all the APIs fit together here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_72/apiref/apiexusdeb.htm <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_72/apiref/apiexusdeb.htm> that is for 7.2 but nothing has changed as far as I know. Penton published an article years ago showing how to use these to retrieve source from a program compiled with listing view - sadly that has gone th way of all of their content.

Jon Paris

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On Dec 2, 2018, at 9:47 AM, Bruce Vining <bruce.vining@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am currently not connected to an i (though working on it) so I can't say
that I've used it, but you may want to take a look at the Retrieve Module
Views (QteRetrieveModuleViews) API
<https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/apis/QTERTVMV.htm>.
The documentation indicates that this API returns (along with a whole lot
of other things):

View type. The type of view. The view type can be one of the following
values:
**TEXT* This is a view where text comes from files or text supplied by the
processor.
**LISTING* This is a view where text comes entirely from text supplied by
the processor.
**STATEMENT* This is a view consisting of statement identifiers. All
modules have a statement view.

Bruce

On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 8:41 AM Robert Rogerson <rogersonra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Brian is correct. I'm trying to find if the object itself has an
indication of the available debug views without entering debug. So far I
haven't found on Google nor the IBM site indicating if this is
possible. I was hoping that someone on this list may know of a way.

Thanks,

Rob

On 12/2/2018 7:02 AM, Brian Parkins wrote:

Indeed. But Rob's original question was how to find this out _without_
initiating a debug session in RDi or STRDBG. Any ideas?

Brian.

On 01/12/2018 22:34, Marvin Radding wrote:

Enter debug and press F15. It will show a list of the view available.

Thanks,

Marvin
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Subject: Re: How to display which debug views are available.

I think Paul is suggesting the use of the DSPPGM command. Press ENTER
until the *MODULE detail panel is displayed, then type option 5).
against the Module(s).

However, this shows only,
Debug data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *YES

- and doesn't answer Rob's question. How to tell WHICH debug views,
(*LISTING, SOURCE, etc.) are available. DSPPGM does not provide this
information, as Rob has already discovered.

I've no idea how you would find this out without initiating a debug
session in RDi or STRDBG. The System APIs don't appear to help either.

Brian.

On 01/12/2018 21:04, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

DSPPGM
Then
5=Display description

Paul

-----Original Message-----
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Robert Rogerson
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2018 3:48 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: How to display which debug views are available.

Hi all,

Can I tell from an object which is already created which debug views
are available?

I understand that when creating an object you may specify which debug
views (*LISTING, *SOURCE, *COPY) you wish to make available. But if
the object (in my case a program) has already been created how do I
tell which views are available. I've tried dsppgm but I don't see any
view information. The only way I've found is through starting debug
on the program and pressing F15=Select view .

Thanks,

Rob

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