Re: Rational Developer for i V9.5.1.1 fixpack for V9.5 is now available!

On 12/27/2016 11:41 AM, Dan wrote:

That last one, "Extract Local Variable", I can't tell you how many times I
would have paid good money to have that when I was deep in debugging a
program running in production. Although, after watching the video, I'm
unclear that this could work while debugging a Power i program, since it
seems like it would have to change the program object, which would
(should?) be impossible.

It's not a change to the debugger; rather, it is a change to the source.
Once the program gets recompiled, the debugging gets easier :-)

Unless, RPG programs actually use a local hidden
variable that the debugger can observe. Specifically, what I would want to
do is to highlight
%substr(getCustName(getCustId(salesHistoryId)): 1: 1)
then right-click it, then select something labeled "View Function Result".

You might consider putting that into an RFE. As far as I know, the RPG
compiler doesn't export intermediate results for 'public' / debugger
consumption, but it might be feasible... Along with that, imagine
'change expression result'. Think big!