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Debug for z/OS

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Improve CICS New Program Support messages or elimiate dependency on the CICS region which owns EQADPFMB starting first

Improve Debug Tool diagnostics, and reduce problem determination time when using DTCN with the VSAM file for AOR/TOR CICS regions. This can be accomplished by eliminating the requirement of the FOR containing the EQAPOFMB file coming up first. If ...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

TEST(NOSOURCE) support for Cobol V5.2

Add TEST(NOSOURCE) for Cobol V5.2
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

IBM Debug Tool - Testing & Development in one CICS

Assume a developer wanted to debug a module which is a core routine and the developer also did the setup of DTCN with his terminal ID & client IP Address. But at the same time, SIT testers are triggering some transaction as part of SIT testing...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

DTCN profile repository selection in Debug Tool

in a MRO environment - if the VSAM file owning region is not up and running when the other regions referencing remote defined file starting up than it seems if TSQ was defined as repository DT will use the TSQ as a profile repository but it will n...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Debug Tool and File Manager Integration

Integration the File Manager functionality via the PDTCC to allow for Debug Tool CICS profile configuration (VSAM or TSQ) without needing to use a CICS TCPIPService for deployment
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Debug Tool should support Variables View for Assembler Programs

For assembler programs there is no variables view available for debugging in RDZ. You can monitor variables in the monitors view, but this has some disadvanatages, e.g. no filtering mechanism, you have to explicitly add each variable to the view (...
almost 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Code Coverage - Delete Observation Support Needed

How do we get rid of old entries in the Observation Viewer item list? Seems odd that a delete option is not provided in the panel.The only workaround to go into the XML and remove the observation manually.
almost 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

IEC141I 013-18 message displayed when accessing EQALANGX member

IEC141I 013-18, IGG0191B,FRANKAR,SLDMVSS,SYS00120,4B10,COD022,FRANKAR.EQALANGX(DTIVPA) displayed every time a eqalangx member is accessed even though SET DEF LIST command was issued before LDD command
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Owner filter on "DTCN Server Profile" list

Should be located for PD Tools - Debug Tool, but can't find category. Please remove this when reallocated. It should possible in the DTCN Server Profile view to set up a filter on userids. Today it's possible to type your userid in the list, but f...
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

AT ENTRY behavior between TIM and GUI - Improve GUI to automatically pick up the loadmod name as the TIM does.

When the load module is different from the program name, the AT ENTRY statement can be entered in the GUI as AT ENTRY programname. This is recognized for any load module, after the LDD is done. In the GUI, you must enter AT ENTRY loadmod::>pgmn...
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

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