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Debug for z/OS

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Add timeout for active and parked debug sessions in IBM Z Open Debug in VS Code

It is common that developers leave active debug sessions open, leaving for lunch or afternoon tea. Even more common that multiple sessions are parked without ever being connected to. It would be VERY helpful if these sessions could timeout. We wou...
4 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Prevent users from debugging excluded programs

Due to many reasons (privacy, performance, ...) organizations might want some programs to be excluded from debugging. Currently, the command NAMES EXCLUDE allows for that. However, it lacks fine-grain control over that exclusion. Worse than that, ...
4 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Debugger clean-up job should stop all debugger message regions that are waiting for input

We are using Debug for Z/OS in our test regions. We have scheduled the clean-up job to run every night. This job executes the Program EQANIPSB. It has 2 steps - the first step stops all the debugger message regions and the next step deregisters al...
12 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Get "Run as/Debug as" working in local projects.

Following a modern DevOps approach to software development, developers will not write code remotely anymore. The source code of projects, including Cobol, JCL, etc. will be located at git repositories. Then, developers will work with a local copy ...
4 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Expand HLASM macro display by command

For a debugging session of an HLASM module, we currently have to decide whether to expand all macros (i.e. show the code they generate) or only show the macro call itself. The first option renders the display nearly useless, because of the sheer n...
almost 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Debugging from IDz: timeout configuration improvements

As an administrator I need a mechanism to configure some timouts to limit the duration of an idle IDz debugging session. Currentily, timeout can be configured in the IDz (Preferences>Run/Debug>Compiled Debug>Debug Session Timeout), but it...
6 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Debugger Remote Debug Service to permit RACF keyrings

The Debugger Remote Debut Service (RDS) currently only allowa the HTTPS server certificates to be stored in a JKS keystore. We need it to be extended to allow z/OS system programmers to store the certificates in RACF keyrings.
10 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Debugger Profile Service (EQAPROF) to implement sysplex awareness

We only want to use a VIPA for the communication between IDz and the mainframe. With IBM z/OS Debugger version 16.0.1 IBM added sysplex-awareness, so now the last missing part that is not sysplex-aware is the EQAPROF. So please add this support.
8 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IDz/Debugger: Debug Profile shall resolve procedures

Hi IBM, IDz / Debugger is not able to resolve procedures within Debug Profiles. This leads to wild guessing the correct step to be debugged within a procedure, that has more than one step and so either the first step will be tried to debug or you ...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Debug: ignore an instruction permanently without stopping

This is a reopen on RFE 150425 as it was misunderstood and closed as "delivered". Please add a way to permanently ignore an instruction during a Debug session. The command JUMPTO doesn't help as it stops the debugger and needs to be entered each t...
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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