Not sure why my previous reply failed to post...
Thanks Jeff/Dave - I got it to work.
It was a combination of the *SRCDBG option during compile and not "pressing play" in the debugger.
Now that I can do this, I will likely never do it again. WOW, what an exercise in futility. I have to monitor the variables I want to see? WHY on earth would anyone want to use the RDi debugger for this?
I can see if you want to use the CLP to step into other "ILE" programs, but if you purely need to see what's going on in the CL I would not use RDi to do that.
Surely IBM can do better than this.
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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Buening
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Debug a CL program
Sounds good, but I really think you almost had it. We have user screens that we go thru and do rating. I debug my job starting at the first entry screen and always get the '"QT3REQIO.STATEMENT". Inside the tab, it says "No debug data available"'. That message is not an error, just doesn't have debug data for the screen I am sitting on. I hit the Resume(green triangle button or in RUN drop down menu). Then I start going thru the user screens, once a screen calls that program it comes up in RDI debug for me to work with.
I wish somehow they could get Set Service Entry points to work with OPM language, but I understand they want us to change everything to ILE. Wish it was as easy as change it to ILE and everything worked the same, but that is not always the case yet.
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From: Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02/03/2017 08:32 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Debug a CL program
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The job in question cannot be submitted... it drives a user screen.
I'm of the opinion that if it takes that many steps to get RDi to work, I'll continue to use STRISDB.
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See responses embedded below:
Michael Quigley
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"WDSCI-L" <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 02/02/2017 03:13:27 PM:
----- Message from Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx> on Thu, 2 Feb
2017 14:58:01 -0500 -----
To:
"Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:
Re: [WDSCI-L] Debug a CL program
Greg,
As far as the No Debug data available, you might try to recompile your
CLP
with the option(*srcdbg) keyword, then (not sure how in rdi) specify
opmsrc(*yes) on the STRDBG command.
Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst
Jeff,
The OP asked about debugging in RDi, your response is not an RDi/WDSc answer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Wilburn [mailto:gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 10:31 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
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System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Debug a CL program
Stupid Question:
Can I use RDi to debug a non-ILE CL program?
If so, how do I go about doing that?
Greg,
If you want to debug a batch OPM program, the easiest way is to submit it on hold--e.g., SBMJOB xxxxxxxx HOLD(*YES). I usually do this by way of the *JOBD with which I'm submitting (e.g., CHGJOBD smbjobdname HOLD(*YES)--or I create a *JOBD in my library with the same name as the one used by the submitting process). Then I go into the Debug perspective and select 'Debug Configurations...'. Then I set up a new "IBM i: Debug Job". I code the Job Name and User and set the Number to * (a single asterisk); then I specify the program I want to debug; and click 'Debug'. RDi (and the host server jobs) see a job for the user on hold, the job is released and RDi stops on the first executable statement in the program. This isn't quite as good as a SEP, but it works well for me when I have to debug OPM programs.
One additional point to make: someone suggested converting the program to CLLE and recompiling. You have to be careful with that as it can impact override scoping. The scoping of overrides is the area that really takes some thought when converting an application to ILE. (That and *NOTIFY messages no longer server much purpose--at least not the same purpose.)
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