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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Debug for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 20, 2021

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:

32710913H
-------------
FFFFFFFFC
327109138

C EBCDIC text:

KRÜGER
--------
DD5CCD
29A759

Xpediter does that as "vertical hex display"

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
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    Jan 24, 2022

    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 - Client

    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 - Multiple
    Source - Client