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Debug for z/OS

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IBM z/OS Debugger - How to know which register is allocated to variable

Customer is using Assembler language.To debug this Assembler, they are using "IBM z/OS Debugger" under 3270 interface. As a nature of Assembler, variable is often allocated to a certain Register.Hence, while turning on Monitoring the variable, cus...
over 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Expand HLASM macro display by command

For a debugging session of an HLASM module, we currently have to decide whether to expand all macros (i.e. show the code they generate) or only show the macro call itself. The first option renders the display nearly useless, because of the sheer n...
almost 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future 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...
about 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Future consideration

possibility to add a CEEOPTS prefix

Customer needs to debug a pgm and needs to have CEEOPTS prefixed(like //DB2PREFIX.CEEOPTS DD *) For the JCL generation, he right clicked the source pgm, then askedprobably generate the JCL "For compile link debug". The generation added //CEEOPTS D...
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Future consideration

More granularity with BROWSE mode RACF configuration for LPARs and CICS environments

General Dynamics IT (GDIT) has installed the PD Tools. They have a shared RACF data base between production and development. They want to limit production use of the debugger with BROWSE mode on specific LPARs and CICS regions. Today, this is not ...
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Update the PSB/ACB in IMS Transaction Isolation tool

A PSB is created to provide access to IMS resources for an IMS program, this is a one-to-one relationship. This relationship makes it difficult if many developers works with the same data and program. If a resource is shared between applications, ...
about 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Take Vector Registers into account in the Debug Tool's "Registers"-View

I am missing the possibility to view the vector registers when debugging an assembler program in batch using Debug Tool. The "Registers"-View from the "Debug"-Category should make the vector registers available for display and changes in their ful...
over 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Future consideration

real in Storage Repository as replacement for EQAUOPT files

As of today, the performance using the EQAUOPT file as profile for starting up Debug Tool may be very CPU consuming in specific cases.1:Delayed Debugging, if activated and the pattern match code does not match immediately but somewhere down the ch...
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Debug Functionality

Can't bring up symbolic source to set a breakpoint without executing the transaction.
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Allow for breakpoints prior to transaction

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