Re: Extracting debug view

["Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>]

iACS debug view lets you copy the whole source.

On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 1:35 AM Reeve <rfritchman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Greetings all--
>
> I'm trying to solve a customer problem and we'd like to extract the
> DBGVIEW(*LIST) source so we can compare it to the current QRPGLESRC
> (restoring from the previous day's backup won't help; that source was clean
> and multiple programmers have meddled with the code, unsuccessfully, to
> find/address the problem).  This is more of a forensic exercise for the
> management team--they like to see a post-mortem/hot wash/after-action
> report whenever we have incidents (which, fortunately, is seldom).
>
> I'm not kidding when I say we think the programmer's cat walked across the
> keyboard.
>
> Is there a free tool, API, or published procedure to do this?  I expect
> I'll have to do quite a bit of cleanup to remove generated SQL and that's
> fine.  Getting the recovered code into a source member and jumping on
> iSphere's extremely handy source compare we give us our answer.
>
> I'd prefer the extraction approach instead of writing a macro that does a
> text screen shot, appends it to an open document, and then reruns the
> macro.  While this works 99.99% of the time, we can't risk the possibility
> of missing what's likely a very subtle error because of a defective debug
> view process (we already have one defective process, which is why I'm doing
> emails at 10:30 PM Saturday night).
>
> Thanks,
> Reeve
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