You can also break at a line every (e.g.) 10 passes through that particular line, or only for (e.g.) the first 18 passes through. While this is not something you might use every day it is still something that can't be done in 5250 debugging and does help if you know you won't be interested in the break coming up every pass through the line.
You can also allow the debugger to "animate" so that it automatically steps forward every few milliseconds/seconds and allows you to just slow a section of code down in order to watch the values change (and then cause the animation to pause when you want to spend more time looking into this. Saves RSI from pressing the step button over and over again! Especially if your program was *not* compiled with OPTION(*NoDebugIO).
-Paul.
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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: 19 September 2013 19:43
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Is there a tutorial on using the debugger in RDi?
The green debugger is still awesome, IMO. The one thing it doesn't allow is run to cursor - that is so much easier in both graphical debuggers, where I don't have to set a breakpoint on an ENDSR or the line after EXSR.
See also my 17-step SEP process in one of these posts - yep, 17 - or at least someone said there were that many!
Vern
On 9/19/2013 12:20 PM, darren@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On a side note, just today I was bragging up the ability in the RDi
debugger to set a conditional breakpoint to a coworker. He pointed
out you can do this in 5250. It was something like 'break 50 when idx=5'.
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/19/2013 01:14 PM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Is there a tutorial on using the debugger in RDi?
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Thank you. I was making it much too hard. I appreciate it.
On 9/19/2013 11:58 AM, Edmund Reinhardt wrote:
Yes there is,
Go to Help->Cheat Sheets
expand IBM i and you will see a tutorial for "Debug a 5250 RPG or
COBOL
application"
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