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Debug for z/OS

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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

iIn Debug Tool -Provide the reason for stopping at a breakpoint in the source view

User has requested that the reason for stopping at a break point in Debug Tool be provided in the source window when it sops at a line of code. Suggestion was to provide popup or message that was not in the log.
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

iIn Debug Tool -Provide the reason for stopping at a breakpoint in the source view

User has requested we provide the reason for stopping at a breakpoint on the source line when it stops. There is not log in the GUI interface to display the reason. He has suggested a popup at the line of source that the breakpoint stopped
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

CICS Debug start based on MQMD/DATA contents

Start debug on a CICS application where the transaction/application is started by CICS based on the content of an MQ message (non terminal transaction). The functionality would be very similar to what we have already where we can start debug of a ...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DT should better support a global preference (GBLPREF)-File with RDz

When you use full-screen interface a GBLPREF-file is usual and helpful to provide the users customized setup for DT, e.g. setting keys similar like a competing debugger to easily switch. This way a parallel used RDZ / Eclipse debugging will have a...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

DebugTool should debug programs in CICSKEY and OPENAPI with TRANISO.

Debugtool loops with 'EQA9999W requested data set unavailable, looping 'if a CICS-COBOL program defined as OPENAPI and CICSKEY is being debugged in a CICS with TRANISO=YES. It turned out that COBOL Side file utility routine for CICS, IGZISFU issue...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add support to display AR Registers

CITI has requested support to display AR Registers. It was verified with support that this is not available at this time
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow for breakpoints prior to transaction

Need to be able to set conditional breaks before kicking off transaction.
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow for breakpoints prior to transaction

Need to be able to set conditional breaks before kicking off transaction.
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Future consideration

security limitations in debug tool

I want to check the permissions of the user, the screen fields in DTCN or CADP, for example, limiting the user to debug only a specific program name or prefix, limiting to a specific user that started the transaction, a particular terminal, and so...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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