Re: Is there a tutorial on using the debugger in RDi?

Hi Michael

If you look at the documentation clips I cited, *SERVICE has nothing to do with authority to a profile, it's authority to the program being debugged.

I could be misreading that stuff, but I don't think so.

*SERVICE gives you STRSST access, trace capability, and ability to debug a program to which you have only *USE.

The combination of STRSRVJOB and STRDBG are so intrinsically mixed in our minds, that it might be easy to combine the authorization needs.

Vern

On 9/26/2013 2:36 PM, MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

*SERVICE special authority is only required to debug a job running under
another profile to which profile you do not have *USE authority. There is
NO way our system administrator would hand out *SERVICE authority. There
was a bug several releases ago (OS/400 releases) where even having *USE
authority didn't allow you to debug another user profile's job. But that
was fixed by MTP and included in subsequent releases. I debug jobs for my
own profile and other profiles to which I have *USE authority all the
time. And I've never had *SERVICE authority.

(Before the fix came out, I would have to get our System Admin to debug
the jobs while I sat with him, but that was a long time ago.)

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/26/2013 02:25:26 PM:

----- Message from Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Thu,
26 Sep 2013 12:36:49 -0500 -----

To:

Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
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Subject:

Re: [WDSCI-L] Is there a tutorial on using the debugger in RDi?

No - I'm saying that the documentation for neither *SERVICE special
authority nor STRSRVJOB mention the other.

As to asking how I read emails, that is completely off-topic.

On 9/26/2013 12:25 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Vern,

Are you saying you do not need to run STRSRVJOB to debug a job other

than

your own current interactive session, or are you speed reading the

email?

Rob Berendt