ILE Program Dumps - no fieldnames

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I wonder if anyone can help me with this problem please - I have a problem where an ILE program is producing a dump but the dump does not contain the names of the fields in the program. ie in that section of the dump where you would expect to find field values, the leftmost columns of the dump are blank. The right hand side of the page does seem to contain field values, but there is no way to determine what fields they relate to. I tried compiling the program DBGVIEW(*SOURCE) OPTIMISE(*NONE) but this has not helped. I last compiled the pgm under V4R1. Also, I had a strange finding when recompiling. The program was originally compiled on a development machine running at V3R1M0. When I tried to fix the above problem by compiling it on the production machine I had errors with D-specs where fields were defined as Integers. The V4 compiler didnt like Integer fields that were not 5 or 10 digit numbers whereas the V3 compiler seemed happy with this. I am new to ILE so am on the steep part of the learning curve at the moment !!! Thanks in advance

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On Wednesday, November 25, 1998, 03:52 AM, Nigel Waters wrote: ... Also, I had a strange finding when recompiling. The program was originally compiled on a development machine running at V3R1M0. When I tried to fix the above problem by compiling it on the production machine I had errors with D-specs where fields were defined as Integers. The V4 compiler didnt like Integer fields that were not 5 or 10 digit numbers whereas the V3 compiler seemed happy with this. Nigel, this strange problem was "fixed" with a PTF in V3R1 - the PTF would stop your program from compiling with an I datatype. (In V3R1, your program wouldn't really behave as though the fields were integers, although if you were just copying them from one to another it might work.) Here's the problem description for APAR SA67155:

 The compiler does not always give a diagnostic message when a field is defined with an unknown data type (position 40 of a definition specification). In releases that do not support the integer data type, a value of I is allowed, although the field is not defined as an integer, and the program may not work as expected. In other releases, a value of N is accepted, even though it is not supported. 

(I can't explain the dump problem. You should report it to service.) Barbara Morris, IBM Toronto Lab, RPG Compiler Development