Re: Extracting debug view

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Seems RtvSrc was published awhile ago -RETRIEVING RPG SOURCE NEWS/400 
published utility Retrieve Source (RTVSRC), which retrieves source from 
ILE programs, in September 1997 - I have a CD with iSeries stuff from 
2000-2005, don't know if it's on there, have to get an external CD/DVD 
drive for my new laptop. Then I'll look.

Vern

On 6/13/2021 10:37 AM, Jon Paris wrote:
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-retrieve-rpg-ile-source-when-compiled-debug-view-all-or-list <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-retrieve-rpg-ile-source-when-compiled-debug-view-all-or-list>
>
> There is also a program RtvSrc that is out there in the wild somewhere although a quick look-see with google did not locate an active link for it.
>
>
> Jon Paris
>
> > On 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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