Debug finds iProjects source first (was Re: RDI 9.6.0.5 is NOT 100% **FREE compatible...)

On 3/14/2019 8:23 AM, Ken Killian wrote:

Just this weekend, we had a senior developer debugging on RDI. And it brought up the WRONG SOURCE! Ouch!

I have the developer DELETE his i-Project to fix that error. Then I show him how he has to manual exclude searching "i-Projects" for the source. That has burned me BEFORE. Use Green Screen debug! It works everytime WITHOUT FAIL! As I tell everyone. :)

If the source is on the system, why wouldn't you use the source compiled on the system FIRST?!?!?!?! And then if it does not exist, then try searching the off-line i-Projects. Oh well, that is how IBM designed it for whatever reason. That is just how it works. But, I guess you can manually tell it NOT to search i-Projects for a debug configuration. So, I guess we have a "Work-Around". Not a good default in my opinion. Oh well, at least he know now! :)

When one uses i Projects, the source in i Projects IS THE ONLY REAL
SOURCE. Everything else is a stale copy. That's kind of the point of i
Projects.

Many of us are twisting the arm of i Projects in order to use Git and
friends for source change control. Even in this situation, the i Project
source needs to be considered the canonical copy. I sure don't want
someone changing the source in a library and then I change my copy in i
Projects and push that to the library and whoops!

But time does pass, and eventually I'm done making changes, and the code
gets promoted to production. At that moment, I delete the i Project.
It's a housekeeping step that I often don't bother with when I use a
filter/connexion as a poor-man's project management system.

Your group seems to want to keep the old i Projects around in your
workspace; hey, we're all different. Fortunately, RDi allows you to do
that and still debug the source that's in the library. Preferences >
Run/Debug > IBM i Debug, then untick the box near the top that says
'Search i Projects first for debug source. That should resolve the issue
you're experiencing.