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Debug for z/OS

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FIXCAT for easy Maintenance of PDTOOLS

With z/OSMF it is quite easy to check the own software configuration against a FIXCAT-List, for example:Are all available z/OS 2.1 PDSE-PTFs are applied So it would be fine to get a FIXCAT Entry for checking against the latest PDTools PTFs. Not on...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

ADD support to access DTU setting in EQANIPSB

Region name and other parms set in DTU are currently not accessible to EQANIPSB
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Start/stop debug region in multiple LPARs with the use of preferences

For debug IMS isolation Ability to start/stop two different private IMS regions in parallell LPARs using different job cards for each job that is started. When starting one region from configuration option Remote IMS application with Isolation, a ...
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

IBM Debug should honor the Special-Names Decimal-Point setting in COBOL

At the moment the Eclipse Debug views "Variables" and "Monitors" only display fractional values (like s9v99) with a decimal-point (e.g. "3.14") In most countries of Europe including Germany the common decimal-sign is a comma (e.g. "3,14") so the p...
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enterprise PL/I's LISTVIEW(SOURCE) Compile Option Support for taking code coverage in IDz

・Request for user interface improvement when conducting interactive debug using IBM Developer for z/OS Client In case of LISTVIEW(AFTERALL), debugging is done against source which include the output source text by PL/I preprocessorBecause our cust...
over 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Start/stop debug region in multiple LPARs from one single LPAR

For debug isolation Start/stop two different private IMS regions in parallell IMS system from one LPAR Today we need to start both regions manually from each LPAR with different job names. We want to be able to do this from one LPAR by selecting t...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Set the action for the disconnect button in remote debug CICS

We need another behaviour for the disconnect button while debugging cics-applications in remote debug. At the moment we cannot use the disconnect button with CICS-debugging. All our transactions are pseudo conversational and if a user hits the dis...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Create internal property group containing compiler options used to produce

Visual debugging not working for PL/I in IDz https://l2l3-cmn-rtc.ratl.swg.usma.ibm.com:9443/ccm/web/projects/Rational%20Escalation#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=96097*******************what we need is to get compiler option and...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Show error message if there is a JCL-Error in the JCL I want to use to debug

Hello, when I start the debugger (in IDz) using "debug configuration" and in the selected JCL is a JCL-Error, it looks for some seconds like debug is starting. Then it vanishes without any message. I suggest, that in case of a JCL-Error an error-M...
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Improved functions for LABEL Breakpoints for Debug Tool

This request is primarily for Enterprise COBOL, but applies to all the languages supported by Debug Tool. It initiated from the Common Wealth of Pennsylvania. Label breakpoints need to be presented to the user the same as statement breakpoints. Th...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Delivered