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Debug for z/OS

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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 ...
almost 11 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...
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Debug Tool DTCN TCPIP matching for EZA Sockets in CICS

We need to be able to use DTCN to match on IP address for programs running under tasks initiated from EZA Sockets. Currently we can only use IP matching for tasks associated with a TCPIP Service.
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

intercepting stored procedure calls in rdz based on client userid

We are implementing rdz and want to use debug tool in rdz for our debugging.Our (external cobol) stored procedures are called from a .NET server, all using the same db2-userid, but providing a client-userid, based on the client that is calling the...
about 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Add User Id parameter to debug display device in DTCN

User #1 created a profile sending tasks for debugging at terminal X, started debugging, and went to lunch without inactivating their profile. User #2 logged on, and was assigned terminal X. User #3 logged on, and ran a task matching the profile. U...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

Allow DT to "trap" on calls made to linked in C modules under CICS (in a long running C based task)

Consider the following scenario (we use RD/z with Debug Tool):<br /><br />CICS Region Startup (driven by CICS PLTPI initiation) <br />CFISTRT1 <br />    … <br />   &nb...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

Support UTF-8 presentation in Debug Tool UI

The current Debug Tool UI in RDz cannot present the memory content in UTF-8, it can only choose EBCDIC / ASCII.
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

need skip command functionality in debug tool

would like the ability to skip a cobol command in debug tool - batch & cics. We miss this feature from Xpediter greatly.
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Automatic disable DTSP/DTCN GUI Profiles for DT GUI

The requirement is for the plugins to automatically set the Debug Tool profile (DTSP/DTCN) to inactive or TEST=NO (NOTEST)
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered

allow the user to log onmultiple times to TIM

lift the TIM limitation to single time log on to TIM. If users can log on multiple times than we have the same functionality in TIM as we have in the GUI
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered