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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Debug for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 16, 2021

IBM Debug: Better handling for SET TEST ERROR

When Remote Debugging in IDz, imagine, you use the default setting TEST(ALL) and your source is running a loop, where a Warning like IGZxxxxW (cause of compile option NUMCHECK) occurs - a popup with the Warning message and the selection Run/Examine/Abort occurs. This Warning can be suppressed under "Manage Event Breakpoints" with TEST(NONE) or TEST(ERROR).

As long as the popup is there, you cannot change the TEST setting within the Debug Views dialogue.

Of course, when you click "Run" and "OK" you're able to change the setting -- except you're catched in a loop as you don't have enough time to change the setting before the popup shows up again, so you can only change it after the loop or you need to know and change it before (or generally change the default).

Therefore I'd wish that within the popup itself there would be an option to disable the warning popup temporarly for this debug session like "Run and dismiss all warnings (TEST(ERROR))..."

That would have 2 advantages:

You can change it directly and avoid that loop problem (the only other way is to set TEST(ERROR) before or as default value)
There's no need to change to TEST(ERROR) as default. This is good as you may want to see this kind of warning at its first occurence (to fix the issue of the warning) but then disable it as you're now aware.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Sep 17, 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
    Operating system - Windows
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - IBM Developer for z/OS, including Enterprise Edition
    Component - Debugger
    Operating system - Windows
    Source - None

  • Guest
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    Aug 16, 2021

    I've added a proposal for this functionality as Screenshot

  • Guest
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    Aug 16, 2021

    Attachment (Description): Suggestion, how this function may work...