Comments on: Debugging RPGLE Program

By: teandy

teandy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:52:37 +0000

IMHO, you would be MUCH better off to recompile the program with *LIST or *ALL.

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:11:05 +0000

The purpose is to debug by statement numbers. It’s rarely used except in some pretty limited circumstances. You might find much more use for it if you wrote some of your debug routines using the debug APIs. About the only way to demonstrate is to STRDBG and then run a BR 1 debug command before exiting out of debug. Then call the program to see what happens.

You can step through with as usual. You can run debug EVAL commands or any others.

Of course, you will need a listing to keep track, and the nicer bits like pressing while the cursor is on a variable aren’t possible. But it allows you to debug without needing to link to source nor shipping a program with all of its details stored inside for the world to uncover.

Tom

By: maxb

maxb — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:58:18 +0000

One thing more if you are using a library that is production you must use UPDPROD(*YES).

By: teandy

teandy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:11:28 +0000

This is straight from the help panel of the CRTBNDRPG command. Debugging views (DBGVIEW) - Help Specifies which level of debugging is available for the compiled program object, and which source views are available for source-level debugging. *STMT Allows the program object to be debugged using the Line Numbers or Statement Numbers of the compiler listing. Line Numbers are shown on the left-most column of the source section of the compiler listing when OPTION(*NOSRCSTMT) is specified. Statement Numbers are shown on the right-most column of the source section of the compiler listing when OPTION(*SRCSTMT) is specified. *SOURCE Generates the source view for debugging the compiled program object. This view is not available if the root source member is a DDM file. Also, if changes are made to any source members after the compile and before attempting to debug the program, the views for those source members may not be usable. *LIST Generates the listing view for debugging the compiled program object. The information contained in the listing view is dependent on whether *SHOWCPY, *EXPDDS, and *SRCSTMT are specified for the OPTION parameter. Note: The listing view will not show any indentation which you may have requested using the Indent option. *COPY Generates the source and copy views for debugging the compiled program object. The source view for this option is the same source view generated for the *SOURCE option. The copy view is a debug view which has all the /COPY source members included. These views are not available if the root source member is a DDM file. Also, if changes are made to any source members after the compile and before attempting to debug the program, the views for those source members may not be usable. *ALL Generates the listing, source and copy views for debugging the compiled program object. The information contained in the listing view is dependent on whether *SHOWCPY, *EXPDDS, and *SRCSTMT are specified for the OPTION parameter. *NONE Disables all of the debug options for debugging the compiled program object.

By: rajeshece

rajeshece — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:30:37 +0000

One More Thing: What is the purpose of this Option?