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(No question here, just a rant )

Just spent 2 of the precious Sunday morning hours on debugging a program that tries to find its HOME_DIR. Was chasing my own tail when I stepped through numerous times with the debugger to find out why it will always receive "NOT FOUND" when retrieving its home directory.

The home directory isn't set when you start a job from QMON, because, well of course it isn't

EX and QPTR Files will set it, but QMON of course won't. So, simply don't do that

Just a though, if you are trying to debug with QMON, have you tried ET instead of EX? That creates the job, then leaves it waiting for the debugger to connect.
(And later, I shall be teaching granny to suck eggs!)


Cheers,
Norm.

NormanDunbar wrote:Just a though, if you are trying to debug with QMON, have you tried ET instead of EX? That creates the job, then leaves it waiting for the debugger to connect.

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ET ram1_whatever;' any parameters etc here'
JOBS
QMON #1,job_number

(And later, I shall be teaching granny to suck eggs!)


Cheers,
Norm.

That does indeed work, Thanks Norman. I knew, but I didn't realize this morning that the HOME Thing needs support from the program starting the job. Just stubbornly searching for the error in my code