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Debug for z/OS

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unique Connexion RDz PDTOOLS DTCN

Management easier and connections under RDz PDTOOLS allow connection from a button for example to connect to CSR DTCN PDTOOLS and to avoid the password Revoked
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Add support for CADP to GUI

Both the customization guide and the user guide allow for both CADP and DTCN as debug profiles managers. See DT User Guide, chapter 17 for the advantages of CADP over DTCN. I've been led to understand, on the other hand, that CADP is no longer bei...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 402 Not under consideration

Parameter to indicate the location of the DTCN repository

It would be nice to have a parameter (initparm for instance) to indicate where the DTCN repository (File or shared tsq) is located
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Long qualified structure fields cannot be monitored in the Debug Tool GUI using CICS explorer

Debug Tool GUI using CICS explorer, neither COBOL nor PLI have the possibility to list or monitor variables which have long names, additionally are part of structures and need to be qualified. See the following COBOL example: DISPLAY LONGDECL_IN_S...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Debug Tool. Access to set monitoring of PL/I local declared variables from outer scope.

Debug Tool. Access to PL/I local declared variables from outer scope. As PL/I works with local declared variables, it is not possible in Debug Tool to work with local variables until the point in processing where local variables actually are addre...
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

RDz: Debugger variable display issue

Debugger monitor view should be able to show the contents of variables greater than?32K.
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

EQAXOPT TIMACB parameter cannot accept a system symbolic as a value

The EQAXOPT TIMACB,xxxxxxxx command used in building the EQAOPTS module needs to allow a system symbolic like the following: EQAXOPT TIMACB,&PLEXNAME However, this may be difficult to do. So any enhancement that would allow the symbolic is gre...
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

allow DT Remote users to limit debugging to one session at a time

allow DT Remote users to limit debugging to one session at a time (and suppress the multi-session capability.) MQ / CICS scenario - where MQ is initiating many transaction of the same name makes remote session useless
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Move Debug Tool storage for program listings

Debug Tool uses twice the storage needed to run during initialization. Currently during initialization storage is obtained in LE Heap and then copied to DT storage. We have many very large programs that have caused SOS conditions during DT initial...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Support for AutoMonitor Feature in GUI

Add support in the GUI debugger to show Automonitor information in the Variables view when debugging assembler and other LANGX programs. This support already exists for COBOL programs using SYSDEBUG files.
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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