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Debug for z/OS

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Enable LIST PSW in remote debugging in RDz

High prioity need to enable Debug Tool to LIST PSW or LIST %PSW when debugging assembler programs in RDz.
almost 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

GUI to automatically create and Insert CEEOPTS DD for Batch JCL

Allow a customer to configure a default set of CEEOPTS options to start a Debug Tool session for VTAM% and TCPIP%. Automatically insert the CEEOPTS DD and inline TEST parameter with a right-click menu option from and edit session. The option to en...
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

64 Bit support for DTST

DTST does not support 64 BIT storage display
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Basic DTCN for 3270 and GUI for CICS transaction debugging

I have had customers, specifically State of GA and others, often confused with the DTCN panel for Debugging. 99% of the time, the customer will not use the LOADMOD name, nor the NETWORK name, nor IP address for the "Combination of Resources to Deb...
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

memory view submenue change

In the sub menu of the memory view the first selection is split pane which will show a variable at a word boundary in the view. This can be very confusing. The second selection is the single pain which will start at the exact offset. Human behavio...
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 7 Delivered

For Debug Tool TIM to Skip No Debug Actions

Debug Tool would be set up via a commands file or some other mechanism to issue some commands (to skip no-debug calling programs and go directly to subprogram that needs to be debugged) for every action from the Natural main menu.
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Setting breakpoints outside the Debug Tool engine

Competitive products allow breakpoints to be set outside of the debug session. A big improvement would eliminate the requirement that Debug Tool stop at the beginning of the program. t. This requirement should be considered for the GUI and the 327...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Set breakpoint on WHEN statements for COBOL

Consider the following statements:276 EVALUATE TRAN-CODE 277 WHEN 'PRINT ' 278 PERFORM 200-PROCESS-PRINT-TRAN 279 WHEN 'TOTALS' 280 PERFORM 300-PROCESS-TOTALS-TRAN 281 WHEN 'ABEND ' Debug Tool will not allow you to set a breakpoint at line 277 279...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Warning about generic DTCN profile

We have been experiencing a great number of problems in our CICS regions, caused by DTCN profiles defined incorrectly. These profiles became generic by the wrong use of wildcards or missing data.This has been affecting a lot of developers running ...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Delivered

Generic userid support with non LE IMS transaction in Debug Tool

Today, when a given user wants to debug a non LE IMS transaction, he should send EQASET to determine the debug console. EQASET has to be sent on the same terminal as the transaction itself. It does not fit with the way the transactions are sent to...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

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