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Debug for z/OS

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Add controll to display +EQA9999W messages for TCPIP errors

With the ability to start DT through modified CEE modules containing the DT LE exits the possibility for EQA9999W message increases drastically. Not every developer set TEST to NOTEST in his userid.DBGTOOL.EQAOPTS ds. This can lead to a flooding o...
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Allow editing in monitor with WRAP ON and long variables

Currently when a field cannot be fully displayed due to its length you can edit itonly when wrap is set off.However it is very uncomfortable to edit very long fields in such a way.When setting wrap on, you may not edit the field.Our request is to ...
about 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Debugging for specific input data

We encountered a problem when debugging for specific input data.DT allows capturing transcations/programs using tran/cu/lm/user/term and in the advanced options commarea offset and container. However, many of our transactions can only be different...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Change Debug Tool to allow the remote debugger (RDz) to allow valid Cobol command to MOVE SPACES to GROUP-ITEM

The Enterprise Cobol compiler (v4.2) allows setting the value of a group item as a standard COBOL statement, but RDz/Debug Tool does not allow it. It begins with a Working Storage definition like this: 01 WS-VARIABLE. 05 WS-ITEM1 PIC 9. 05 WS-ITEM...
about 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Debugger Profile Service (EQAPROF) to implement sysplex awareness

We only want to use a VIPA for the communication between IDz and the mainframe. With IBM z/OS Debugger version 16.0.1 IBM added sysplex-awareness, so now the last missing part that is not sysplex-aware is the EQAPROF. So please add this support.
9 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

add SET SOURCE ON support for remote debug session

A customer tried to debug assembler with mulitple enty points . To stop at the different entry points in the green screen debugger we need to issue the command AT prog1 SET SOURCE ON PROG1 userid.LANGX(prgr2) where prog2 is the CSECT name
about 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

IDz Debugger IMS Isolation to prevent 'DIS TRAN *' command

Debugger IMS Transation Isolation facility in ISPF pannel currently permits issuing both an IMS display command 'DIS TRAN *' to display all the existing trasactions, or issue 'DIS TRAN pattern*' with a filtering pattern, or even with the full tran...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Delay debug does not behave like CICS debug

Hi, we found some weird difference in behaviour of z/OS Debugger between CICS and non-CICS profiles (delay debug). Assuming we have a program call chain of PROGA calling PROGB and defining both programs in the debugger profiles. Behaviour in CICS:...
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future 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

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

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