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Debug for z/OS

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Provide a FIND <text> PREV

Adding a find previous function to the find Text function would assist in finding the specific instance of the text desired more quickly.
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 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

Improved Debug Tool tracing with STEP limits

This requirement is very similar to 18606 Debug Tool Tracing Capabilities RFE. In addition to tracing, the user wants to trace a limited number of steps. For example STEP 100 will provide an animated step of 100 lines. What they want to see is ea...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 6 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

Improve Debug Tool management of TEST Run-time Options and Save Settings and Save Breakpoints

It would be beneficial for Debug Tool to use a a common repository, or perhaps two repositories to manage the Run Time Options Data set, and the Save Settings and Breakpoints. This would improve the usability and customization processes for the De...
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 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

Option in the EQAOPTS to specify the default of CU_PROTECTED or CU_UNPROTECTED

Customer feels this would be a very helpful thing to incorporate into Debug Tool. There should be two parts to it: 1. An option in the EQAOPTS that lets you specify the default of CU_PROTECTED or CU_UNPROTECTED 2. A PFKey to open the access to the...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add command to keep a line shown in the Auto Monitor

When the lines are shown in the Monitor resulting from an AUTO ON command, accept a line command such as K(keep) or M(monitor) to issue a Monitor List command with the variable, resulting in "Keeping" the variable in the monitor window.
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Length of data vs length of input field

For a computational numeric field of 5 characters, the monitor displays an entry field of 10 characters. Only the 5 rightmost are recognized. It is explained in the documentations as the equivalent of TRUNC(BIN) option. We do not want to see the e...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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