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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Debug for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 16, 2019

RELATED IDEAS

Improve "Delay Debug Mode"

To debug subtasks within an STC, we use the "delay debug mode". We found that it is very inflexible due to the way it was implemented:
- a special EQAOPTS module has to be created
- this module must be placed in a dataset which then has to be concatenated under STEPLIB
- EQAOPTS points to a "Delay Debug Profile Data Set" which is a sequential DS (PS)
- There is only one qualifier (the userid) which can be used in the "pointer" to the "Delay Debug Profile DS"

Therefore, for each debugging situation we need to either change the contents of the "Delay Debug Profile DS" (that's what we currently do) or that we would need to provide a large number of different EQAOPTS modules, each pointing to a specific "Delay Debug Profile DS"

We suggest that at least, instead of a PS type dataset, the "Delay Debug Profile DS" becomes PO to allow the definition of different sets of subtasks.

The best solution would be to integrate the parameters of the "Delay Debug Profile DS" into the Setup member, thus getting rid of both the EQAOPTS module and the "Delay Debug Profile DS".

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 29, 2022
    Customer updated they have found a way on handling delay debug and hence will close this idea.
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 9, 2022
    Setting and activating delay debug is also supported by IBM Debug for z/OS on Eclipse IDE.

    This is the reference on using z/OS Debugger Profile to create, activate, inactivate, deleted, modified or duplicate debug profiles: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/debug-for-zos/16.0?topic=session-managing-debug-profiles-zos-debugger-profiles-view

    You can create multiple delay debug setups via creating non-CICS debug profile (reference on how to create non-CICS debug profile: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/debug-for-zos/16.0?topic=procedures-creating-debug-profile-non-cics-application)
    Only the activated one will be the effective delay debug setup.
    Hence, you will only need to set a simple TEST() runtime option, and the delay debug setup will be the activated one (You do not need to manually create debug profile DS, and you do not need to create and build a EQAOPTS to point to debug profile DS too).
    If you need to change to a different delay debug setup, you can just activate the one you will like to use.

    Please try to use this z/OS Debugger profile, and comment if this fulfill the objective of this requirement.

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