Re: Can not get breakpoints set in RSE source to work

Hi guys,
I believe a similar question/issue was posted by Ewout a bit earlier on
this list as well.

I am not 100% sure what causes problems in individual scenarios, but let me
give you a bit
of an overview and hopefully this will shed some light onto the situation.

One can use RSE perspective to edit source files that reside on the
iSeries. In order to
integrate nicely with the iSeries debugger, we allow setting what we call a
'source file breakpoints'
at that time. Unfortunately, we do not really know which Program/Service
Program will contain
this source file at the time. Therefore, the first time user tries to set
such 'source file breakpoint',
WDSC will actually prompt you to provide the name of Program/Service
Program. We expect this
to be correct, otherwise, once debugger starts such 'non-matching'
breakpoint will simply be ignored.

Then, you get to compile your source into a Module and Program/Service
Program. At this point,
you get to specify which debug views are to be included. You can either
compile with *SOURCE
or *LISTING debug view (some languages allow for *ALL views). If program
was compiled with the
*SOURCE view, we will try to honor all the breakpoints that you set using
RSE perspective editor
when you start your debug session.
You will notice that once breakpoint is 'installed or active' in the debug
session it will have a little checkmark
next to it in the Breakpoints view. Breakpoints that were not 'activated or
installed' during debug session
startup will have no such checkmark.

Now, if you compiled your program only with *LISTING view, debugger will
automatically switch to that
*LISTING view, and none of the 'source file breakpoints' will be installed
for that debug session.

Hopefully this gives you an idea as to how 'source file breakpoints' can be
used by the iSeries debugger.
Regards,
Vadim.
iSeries Run-Time Analysis Tooling




                                                                           
             Dave Murvin                                                   
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I have been having a hard time figuring out how/where to set breakpoints to

debug a program.

I was setting break points in the source module in the RSE perspective,
then trying to debug the program object interactively going through the
debug menu.  When I selected Resume in the Debug perspective, I assumed
that the program would run to the first break point I had set.  Instead,
the program runs to completion without stopping at any break points.

What I discovered is that the Debug perspective brings up the program to be

debugged in a separate pgm.listing view.  When I set the break points in
this listing view, the debugger stops at the break points as expected. None

of the breakpoints set in the RSE source view were transferred to this
pgm.listing view.

What is the purpose of setting the break points in the RSE perspective view

of the source if they are not recognized by the debugger?  Am I missing
something?  I spent quite a while figuring out how to get any break points
to work.  It was very frustrating.

I am using WDSCi 5.1.2.1 and V5R3

Thanks.


Dave Murvin
DRM Enterprises, Inc.


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