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