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Debug for z/OS

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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...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Command to Clear all suspended breakpoint is missing

Using full-screen client when SET SAVE BPS AUTO and SET RESTORE BPS AUTO are active in the users settings and a user had set a statement breakpoint in a dynamically loaded subprogram, the breakpoint is restored as "suspended" in the next debugging...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Equivalent of DTU option 8 in RDz

Today, to add the CEEOPTS in a JCL from any RDz editor, you need to create a snippet with a hard coded IP address. We want something like the DTU option 8 on the mainframe. Select Submit with Debug (new right click option on the member name). Then...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

New Debug Tool command PANEL PFKEYS

Provide panel to display and change the PFKeys affectations
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

IMS Fast Path

Scotiabank is replacing Xpeditor with IBM Debugger v14.x. Scotiabank Client asked for isolation support for IMS Fast Path by User ID. James Rice informed us that this feature is not available. Please kindly assist if this can be done easily? Pleas...
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Pre-fill the OBJECT/Program/CSECT and Function or Entry point field in the AT ENTRY breakpoint pane

Prefill the two fields Object/Program/CSECT and Function or Entry Point based on the completed contents of Load Module/DLL/Executaboe
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 9 Not under consideration

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...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 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.
over 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...
over 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...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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