Q. Your RPG for RPG Programmers presentation covered the ILE debugger for interactive jobs. But I need to debug a batch program. Do I need a different debugger?
A. No. You can use the same ILE debugger to debug interactive or batch jobs, written in ILE or OPM languages. But there are a few extra steps to get the debugger started. Here’s a cheat sheet:
- SBMJOB … HOLD(*YES)
- STRSRVJOB JOB(jobnbr/user/jobnam)
- STRDBG
- When source is displayed, press F12
- RLSJOB JOB(jobnbr/user/jobnam)
- When Start Serviced Job display appears, press F10
- When command entry display is shown, DSPMODSRC
- When source is displayed, set a breakpoint, then press F12
- When command entry display is shown, press F12
- When Start Serviced Job display reappears, press Enter
- Program will stop at breakpoint, and can be debugged interactively
- After serviced job ends
- ENDDBG
- ENDSRVJOB