Re: How to debug web service RPGLE program

Hello Liam

SEP is *Service Entry Point* - I think SBREAK on the green-screen debugger sets it. I suspect you are using this, since you talk about STRSRVJOB, which you do in a new session after setting the break with SBREAK - or maybe using even older techniques.

I find the RDI debugger to be useful enough, and RDI handles using SEPs well enough for my purposes. I do use the green-screen one, also.

If you are on the command line in STRDBG, press F1, and you should see the commands you can enter - look for SBREAK.

Susan Gantner promotes the RDi debugger, yet she also wrote an article - https://www.itjungle.com/2012/10/03/fhg100312-story01/ - on using SEPs in STRDBG.

HTH
Vern

On 2/1/2024 6:18 PM, liam henderson wrote:

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is SEP?
I’m all green screen and use STRSRVJOB and STRDBG all the time


On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 22:09, Scott Klement<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Service Entry Points are available in all of:

- Green Screen Debugger

- System Debugger (which you were just telling us about)

- RDi debugger


Sadly, VS Code does not (yet) have support for SEPs. Personally I find
the System Debugger so buggy that it isn't usable, and I find RDi slow
and cumbersome. So I typically use the green-screen debugger. I use
SEPs almost every day, and they've been around for ages. I find it odd
that soooo many people in this conversation don't know about them.


On 2/1/2024 3:20 PM, Daniel Gross wrote:

The System Debugger is integrated in iACS and completely independent

from RDi - with this you can remotely debug any job.

I don't know if the "service entry point" debugging is RDi exclusive,

but I didn't find it anywhere else until now.

HTH
Daniel

Am 01.02.2024 um 22:04 schrieb Brad Stone<bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>:

Here ya go.. been doing it for years:

https://www.fieldexit.com/forum/display?threadid=48

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 2:54 PM<vforbes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a web service & I need to be able to put the job into debug.

I remember that RDi could put a put a like on a program such that when

a

job calls it that job is put into remote debug. I don't have RDi. ☹

Is there a way I can do it without RDi. Maybe VScode?

Vincent Forbes

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