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Debug for z/OS

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Concatenate LPAR specific DSN in front of SEQATLIB

We are a large shop where we have the Debug tool set up in over 100 test regions. The test regions are on over 20 lpars. There is one IBM Debug SMPE environment for all lpars. Maintenance for the Debug Tool is shipped from this central site and in...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Support debugging of non-LE subroutines that run in a lower link level under an LE compliant SORT exit

Currently Debug Tool does not allow a user to debug a lower level assembler subroutine that is entered by this sequence: SORT calls a an LE COBOL sort exit, which calls an assembler subroutine, which in turn calls another assembler subroutine. At ...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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...
almost 10 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
almost 10 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.
about 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
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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