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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Debug for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 10, 2013

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Debug Tool. Access to set monitoring of PL/I local declared variables from outer scope.

Debug Tool. Access to PL/I local declared variables from outer scope.

As PL/I works with local declared variables, it is not possible in Debug Tool to work with local variables until the point in processing where local variables actually are addressed.
Thus it is not possible, when stopped in e.g. main entry point as the actual scope, to set and watch local declared variables in Debug Tools monitoring view.
It would be an much appreciated enhancement to gain access from outer scope to local declared variables in debug sessions, in order to setup monitoring properly.
I guess that monitoring could be set as for deferred breakpoint in a fetch module.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 15, 2021

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Development Tooling
    Product - IBM Debug for z/OS
    Component - z/OS Debugger

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Development Tooling
    Product - IBM Debug Tool
    Component - Plug-in

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 19, 2020

    Thank you for submitting this RFE. Unfortunately, this enhancement is not within our 2 year strategic roadmap.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 19, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Development Tooling
    Product - IBM Debug Tool

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - IBM Debug Tool

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 4, 2013

    Due to processing by IBM, this RFE was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Enterprise Tooling
    Product - IBM Debug Tool
    Component - Plug-in

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Developer for System z
    Component - z/OS Application Development

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