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Debug for z/OS

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change default representation of floating-point variables in assembler

If the value of a variable defined as D ( floating point) is very small - the monitor will display 0.0. If you change the representation to HEX you will see x'000000000000001C' which is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow ISPF access when debugging in TSO - Primarily for BTS testing

Customer was not happy when they discovered BTS Testing locked up the TSO session with Debug Tool. Even if they were to use the Terminal Interface Manager, or if they use the Debug Tool GUI, the TSO session was still locked under BTS. Competitor p...
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Select items in an array

An array variable may contain a lot of items that overfill the monitor window. The customer wants to display only some items of the array without selecting them manually. It means having a selection process such as removing from the displayed arra...
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Variable name syntax not recognized

Debug Tool recognize only the old naming convention for variables, such as ID-JCL of DCLVSPOJCL2, not the new syntax :DCLVSPOJCL2.ID-JCL
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

STEP OVER of PERFORM

STEP OVER OF PERFORMThis function is available for DT V13 with Cobol V5.The customer is still using Cobol V3R4 at one location.Can we have this function made available with older Cobol versions ?This is important when you have a PERFORM xxx as the...
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Requesting Change presentation action on Group level

At the moment Change Presentation is only available on the lowest level of the variable definition. However you have to do it for every variable. If you could do it on the group level if would be much more efficient.
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Allow tagging with characters as well as colour

The users have to deal with the colour mapping of MVS and also the emulator
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

More explicit error messages

These two tools have unique error messages but these error messages can reference multiple causes
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

STAT DEBUG TOOLS

See PMR let us know in detail what subsys option you expect DT to provide in which debug scenario ex : SUBSYS:TCPIP or RDz
about 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

RACF error not being displayed.

RACF error not being displayed anywhere on a user failure.
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

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