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Re: Debugging with RDi

One of the big conveniences of SEP is when you want to debug a batch job
that is not yet running, and it's awkward to set up and catch in the
correct state for your requirements.

If your job is already running then I'm sure you have tried STRSRVJOB then
STRDBG on it.

If that isn't working, I wonder if it is multi-threaded and you aren't
managing to debug the right thread?
I've had similar issues to that when trying to debug trigger programs.

On 26 April 2016 at 13:40, Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I use SEP all the time... but you can't use them when the program is
already running. Like most, once I've started using RDi and the SEP
debugger, I'm never going back.

I don't understand why SEP wouldn't work on this job, other than I may
have the user wrong. The job under QHTTPSVR is running under user
QTMHHTTP. This job (or one of them) calls MYPGM. I've used SEP on MYPGM
for both my user and QTMHHTTP. For some reason it never jumped into debug.

What user is SEP monitoring for? The "Job User" or the "Current User"?
The application calling my program would likely have a job user of
QTMHHTP1. The user running the CGI application would be the current user.

Is there a way to monitor the entire job, regardless of user?

Thanks,
Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken
Killian
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 6:56 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Debugging with RDi

Hi,

Using that "SEP" debugging, is how I got a developer to start using RDI!
It is pretty powerful! My co-worker needed to debug a web-service that
called an RPG program.

I told him out right, I don't know how to debug it WITHOUT the power of
"SEP" inside of RDI!

That is all it took to convince him to start using RDI. It took his
co-worker several years, before he started using RDI.

You basically need to tell RDI these three things:
1.) IBM i system/box (a.k.a. Beta/Quality-Assurance/Production/other)
2.) Library/Program name
3.) User-Profile

Then, NO MATTER how the program is evoked, it pops up in RDI! I use the
SEP method probably about 80% of the time. Other times, I debug my green
screen job, where I got an error.

RDI should be classified as an I.D.D.E.

I.D.D.E. = Integrated Development/Debug Environment. But most just call it
IDE.

-Ken Killian-

-----Original Message-----
From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Craig
Richards
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 2:20 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Debugging with RDi

Greg,

As Glenn mentioned, if you use SEPs then it's pretty easy to debug server
processes ( well, threaded stuff can be trickier ).

In addition to the notes Glenn gives - you also have to ensure that you
set the correct user that the program will be running under in the batch
process.

To do this, once you have set the SEP and can see the program in the SEP
view, you can right click or double click ( sorry I don't have RDi running
on this machine ) and amend the user to be the correct one.

regards,

On 25 April 2016 at 22:29, Glenn Gundermann <glenn.gundermann@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I don't have a tutorial, so I'm not directly answering your post.
I don't see you mention Service Entry Points in your notes.
This is key.
Right-click the program (or module, or procedure) > Debug or Code
Coverage (Service Entry) > Set Service Entry Point


Yours truly,

Glenn Gundermann
Email: glenn.gundermann@xxxxxxxxx
Work: (416) 675-9200 ext. 89224
Cell: (416) 317-3144


On 25 April 2016 at 16:52, Greg Wilburn
<gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Does anyone have a good tutorial on debugging in RDi? Specifically,
debugging Apache CGI jobs running in subsystem QHTTPSVR.

I can find the job (WRKACTJOB), find the same job in RDi Remot
System view, right click and select Debug (Prompt), etc. Then I'm
able to debug the job a few times before it seems to cease breaking at
my breakpoints.

If I use the green screen STRSRVJOB and STRDBG I do not have this
issue.

Really a PITA to debug these things with RDi.

Greg
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