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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories Other
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 15, 2010

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Improve EGL debugger tracing and variable values

We observed some new output when running the EGL debugger within updated RBD v7.5.1.5 after activating additional tracing output (an option advised previously by the RBD lab we always use) that did not happen in prior RBD versions ie
Create a "rununit.properties" file with:
vgj.trace.type=-1
# -1 for trace all
# 0 for no trace (the default)
# 1 for general trace, including function invocations and call

vgj.trace.device.option=1
# 0 for write to System.out
# 1 for write to System.err
# 2 (the default) for write to the file specified in

A simple numeric variable assignment statement within a source class then associated with a formgroup with the applicable numeric field now produces warnings in the console red output text that did not occur in such as RBD v7.5.1.1 although these have no effect on the completion of the EGL debugging operation, the actual debug run completes with the correct results ie
EGL0102E The value of string type cannot be converted to the number type.
EGL0002I The error occurred in myProgram processing the main function.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Business Developer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Business Developer

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 22, 2010

    While the VisualAge Generator Interactive Test Facility did have some nice tracing features, it is not our direction to implement the same functionality in RBD. Instead, we are continuing to add capabilities to the Debugger. For example, in the next release of RBD, we are adding conditional breakpoints.

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