Re: WDSCI-L Digest, Vol 13, Issue 39

Buck,
Thanks for the refresher on what things are called.

I am debugging the main program and the SEP is open. It shows the last two programs I debugged. It does NOT show the date routine program. Yet when I run one of the two programs shown in the SEP, the date routine program gets debugged. It does not show up in the SEP. (there are 7 tabs in the view, console, tasks, debug console, etc. One of which is IBM I service entry points.)

This is where I get lost. Shouldn't my date routine program that is being debugged show up in the SEP view?

---Dale

message: 4
date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:31:01 -0500
from: Buck Calabro<kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] how to control debug

On 1/23/2015 11:33 AM, Dale Janus wrote:

>I am still learning my way around RDI or remote system explorer (or
>whatever it's supposed to be called).

RDi is the whole enchilada - the name encompasses all of the parts that
come from IBM. Since it's based on Eclipse, there is some Eclipse
terminology that might help communicate among ourselves.

The arrangement of all of the various panes in the window is called a
Perspective. The 'normal' Perspective is called the Remote System
Explorer Perspective. You can change Perspectives by way of Window >
Open Perspective.

Inside a Perspective are various Views. The Remote System Explorer
Perspective has a Remote Systems View (which has our connections and
member filters), an LPEX Editor View (which has our open editor tabs)
and other Views which I'm not going to waste your time listing. If you
can't see a particular View, Window > Show View > Other (usually) > IBM
i and then choose the one you'd like to put into your open Perspective.
You can always x it out if you don't want to see it anymore.

Most people say RSE when they mean the Remote Systems view. Saves
typing. LPEX is the editor and SEP is the IBM i Service Entry Points View.

>I an not sure how to turn debug on and off properly.

<snip>

In the SEP View, there is a list of programs for which you have Debug
enabled. Right click and remove the program from the list. You don't
need to end RDi.

If you recompile a program and want to test it in debug one more time,
right click it in the SEP View and choose Refresh.

-- --buck