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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories RDi (Rational Developer for i)
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 20, 2018

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Rdi Debug of RPG Step Over enhancements - EXSR and Exec SQL

Currently when debugging RPG code with RDi, Step Over will step over procedure/function calls but will step into EXSR subroutine calls. It should also step over EXSR subroutine calls. Subroutines have similar use cases to subprocedures (and some shops stick with subroutines out of old habit), so there is just as much reason to want to step over a subroutine as a subprocedure.

Currently when debugging RPG code with RDi in *SOURCE view, Step Into and Step Over will have to be pressed an unknown number of times times to clear a single Exec SQL Statement. This is because the SQL Precompiler replaces Exec SQL Statements with multiple assignments and procedure calls that are invisible in *SOURCE view, but visible in *LIST view. Step Over on an Exec SQL statement in *SOURCE view should step over the invisible SQL code and skip to the first executable line after the Exec SQL Statement.


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Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 18, 2018

    I'm wondering why IBM_Rational_Developer (I don't mean the person but the organisation) can not open the separate RFE regarding SQL.
    Why do we customers have to do such work?

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 6, 2018

    We have evaluated this request and determined that it cannot be implemented at this time because it is not feasible to step over an EXSR operation.

    Regarding the extra stepping required to step over an EXEC SQL statement, please open a separate RFE against the system debugger. Specify Brand = Servers and Systems Software", Product Family = "Power Systems", Product = "IBM i", Component = "Application Development".

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 26, 2018

    Michael - I only mentioned RPG because that's all I program in. If other languages would benefit from this, then by all means list them.

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 25, 2018

    I would be very supportive of this, but it should apply to more than just RPG.

  • Guest
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    |     Jun 21, 2018

    Same for the native debugger... especially the SQL remark is very annoying.

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