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Debug for z/OS

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there is no time out for CICS debug session in CICS terminal

TIM and remote debug have a time out possebility - CICS has not when running debug in CICS terminal
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Debugger should provide CICS WUI definitions for the debugger resources

there might be other customers who use WUI 's - they can not use the CSD's we provide at this time
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add MFA Support for Debug Profile Editor in Eclipse IDE

Currently some ADFz products (such as File Manager and Fault Analyzer) work perfectly with IDz Eclipse IDE while using MFA and PassTickets, while others, such as the Debug Profile Editor do not. Additionally, if you try to use the Debug Profile Ed...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Avoid console message IOERR response when - trying to - access resource. Possible NOTAUTH in certain situations

When running a Program thru the Debugger for the first time, the Debugger will will add the program to the SAVEBPS dataset and issues the following messages to the console: -13.29.06 S2 J0970 +EQA9893I Userid DCP800T received an IOERR response whe...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IDz Debugger IMS Isolation to prevent 'DIS TRAN *' command

Debugger IMS Transation Isolation facility in ISPF pannel currently permits issuing both an IMS display command 'DIS TRAN *' to display all the existing trasactions, or issue 'DIS TRAN pattern*' with a filtering pattern, or even with the full tran...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Dynamic invocation of Fault Analyzer from IDZ Debug

The users would expect Fault Analyzer to be invoked dynamically when debugging under IDZ Debug and an Abend occurs. It would be an expected continuation of the Debug process.
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

zUNIT: Folder structure for CC ( code coverage) should match to Source File Structure

When generating the code coverage reports and expanded source the folder structure is very different from our current source folder structure. Currently everything is generated dynamically in the CC folder with timestamps, dataset names, and modul...
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to create entries to the cross-reference table from IDz eclipse interface

To create entries in IMS Transaction and User ID Cross Reference Table, users have to use the ISPF menus in the IBM z/OS Debugger Utilities. We would like to have this feature/possibility through the Eclipse interface as well. In IDz, the idea is ...
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Delay debug does not behave like CICS debug

Hi, we found some weird difference in behaviour of z/OS Debugger between CICS and non-CICS profiles (delay debug). Assuming we have a program call chain of PROGA calling PROGB and defining both programs in the debugger profiles. Behaviour in CICS:...
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Search function for program literals to add to Monitor

Hello IBM, we like to have a functionality that was found in Xpediter: When you want to add a variable/literal to the Monitors view "Monitor Expression" and you're not 100% sure how it's call, you should have the option to search for the name of t...
about 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration