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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Categories z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 9, 2026

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[CDADUMP] Option to redirect outputs to files

Hi,

This may not be the best group to make this request, but it is related to the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler for z/OS.

The CDADUMP utility, a JCL version of the command-line dwardfump utility, allows you to extract DWARF information stored in a load module.

Currently, the extracted information is generated in a dynamically allocated anonymous file of the form "SYSnnnn".

This makes using the CDADUMP utility complicated, especially when retrieving the COBOL source code using the -zt option (.debug_srctext).

We would like an option to specify the dsname or ddname that should be populated with the extracted data.

Perhaps specific dsnames/ddnames should be used depending on the information extracted, but having at least one dsname/ddname output would already be useful.

Thanks.

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Basil Kanneth
    Apr 7, 2026

    Hi,
    Thank you for submitted this idea. However, this functionality already exists.

    The output goes to SYSPRINT, which can be redirected to a dataset just like the compiler listing.

    eg:

    //SYSPRINT DD DSN=USER.TEST.SYSDWARF(&MEMBER.),DISP=SHR

    As a result, this idea is being marked as 'Functionality already exists'. Thanks.


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