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Debug for z/OS

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IDz headless Code Coverage daemon support CCS call to locate via "testIds"

The current Code Coverage Service RESTful API only support to locate a result via "result id" which we actually don't know in runtime. What we actually know in runtime after executing a code coverage is the "testIds" So we need the API support to ...
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

there is no time out for CICS debug session in CICS terminal

TIM and remote debug have a time out possebility - CICS has not when running debug in CICS terminal
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Debugger should provide CICS WUI definitions for the debugger resources

there might be other customers who use WUI 's - they can not use the CSD's we provide at this time
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IDz Code Coverage Enhancement: Number of times a statement was executed

years ago there was a tool that was very similar to RDz Code Coverage. One thing it had that would be good to add to RDz code coverage would be a count of the number of times a statement was executed. This would be helpful in fine tuning if/then/e...
about 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Debugger: Displaying Variable content as Hex like in ISPF Editor

Hi IBM, it would be nice, if the Remote Debugger GUI would be able to display hex values of variables like in ISPF. Samples: A pic 9(4) digit:1234 (original display)----FFFF (first halfbyte)1234 (second halfbyte) B pic 9(9) comp-3 Packed Decimal: ...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 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...
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Decision/Branch Level Code Coverage

Currently, line level coverage is the most specific level of code coverage offered. This is comparable to statement coverage on other platforms. However, to really get a more complete indication of the level of coverage achieved by a testing suite...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Avoid console message IOERR response when - trying to - access resource. Possible NOTAUTH in certain situations

When running a Program thru the Debugger for the first time, the Debugger will will add the program to the SAVEBPS dataset and issues the following messages to the console: -13.29.06 S2 J0970 +EQA9893I Userid DCP800T received an IOERR response whe...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

User-EQAOPTS should not be able to override systemwide GPFDSN

Settings made by the system programmer in GPFDSN should not be changeable by single users.A possible solution would be to enhance GPFDSN command by 'override' or 'nooverride'Example:EQAXOPT GPFDSN,'GROUP1.COMMON.DTOOL.PREFS',NOOVERRIDE
about 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Integrated Debugger should support both notations DBM%USERID and DBM.USERID

The problem with the terminated communication had to do with Integrated Debuggernot supporting or recognizing DBM.USERID. Because it didn't honor the userid, it defaulted to using the IMS region userid which, hence, caused the failure
over 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration