Re: DS subfield not honoring watch

Even with a fresh start, it happened again.  I checked the field just before the MOVEL and it was blank, I added a breakpoint a couple of lines later, and I hit F12.  It hit the breakpoint and not the watchpoint, and but the value was changed  to '1'.

Even stranger, I move the field to a screen field, display it with EXFMT, and then move it back.  Even if I don't change the field on the screen, I still trigger the watchpoint.  So it's as if the debugger is holding a cached value of CSSHAL and the MOVE into the data structure field is not updating that cached value.

It's really quite odd.  If I get time I'll trim it down to the bare essentials and see if it continues.


On 10/22/2019 9:24 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

I got sidetracked while I was testing this, Booth, so I'm going to look at it again with a clear head in the morning.  It's certainly possible that this is user error and the field is not actually getting changed, so I'm going to be very careful about the testing.

On 10/22/2019 2:01 PM, Booth Martin wrote:

Would it make a difference if the value in position 1 is changed to the same value (a to a, z to z, 3 to 3), so there is no apparent change?

On 10/22/2019 1:32 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

I have a program with a data structure:

     D                 DS
     D  XXPAR1                 1    200
     D  CSSPIC                 1      1
     D  CSIN52                 2      2
     D  CSIN53                 3      3

I have a watch on CSSPIC.  I MOVEL a value into XXPAR1 that has a value in position 1, but I don't trigger my watch point.

Is this a known behavior?