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Debug for z/OS

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Option to trigger and alert requiring a password when passed stoage is modified

Our application uses shared memory in the following way. The first program in the chain does a GETMAIN and gets a chunk of memory. A pointer to this memory is passed along to all the subsequent programs in the chain. While debugging a downstream p...
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

ANALYZE command

The following restriction should be removed (excerpt from Debug Tool, Reference and Messages Version 11, Chapter 5, Debug Tool Commands): The ANALYZE command displays the process of evaluating an expression and the data attributes of any intermedi...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

ANALYZE command

The following restriction should be removed (excerpt from Debug Tool, Reference and Messages Version 11, Chapter 5, Debug Tool Commands): The ANALYZE command displays the process of evaluating an expression and the data attributes of any intermedi...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

ANALYZE command

The following restriction should be removed (excerpt from Debug Tool, Reference and Messages Version 11, Chapter 5, Debug Tool Commands): The ANALYZE command displays the process of evaluating an expression and the data attributes of any intermedi...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Give a more detailled message if an ABEND occurs and an AT OCCURENCE is active

Customers expect to see a detailed message if an ABEND (ABEND0CB etc) occurs. This is not the case if an AT OCCURENCE or AT GLOBAL OCCURENCE is active.
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide a command SET COLOR xxxxxx MONITOR VALUE

Provide a command SET COLOR xxxxxx MONITOR VALUE ;As of today, Turquoise color is default color for monitor values. We have a command to change the color in the monitor window for LINES are AREA, what contains the names. The commands like: SET COL...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide a command SET COLOR xxxxxx MONITOR VALUE

Provide a command SET COLOR xxxxxx MONITOR VALUE ;As of today, Turquoise color is default color for monitor values. We have a command to change the color in the monitor window for LINES are AREA, what contains the names. The commands like: SET COL...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

display the last CICS map using a Debug Tool command

In a Debug Tool session, it should be possible to display the last CICS map using a Debug Tool command
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

provide a dynamic allocation of SYSTCPD before the first TCPIP call. use EQAOPTS to define a default TCPDATA dataset

If a customer has 2 TCPIP stacks with no defined default, then it may become difficult to define a way to initialize TCPIP for resolver_config. Debug Tool needs an option to define a user specific TCPDATA dataset, before the first TCPIP request is...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Using a commandsfile containing one or more STEP commands, Debug Tool stops interpreting the following cmds

Today, if a commandsfile is executed and contains one or more STEP commands, then Debug Tool stops interpreting and executing after the first STEP stmt. That makes it impossible to use the commands saved to the log file, since does will always con...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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